[Foundation-l] Re: Official Positions

[Anthere]

Sj a écrit:
 > On 5/26/05, Anthere 
<anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
 >
 >>I am not very convinced. I think the positions selected really stick to
 >>the Foundation issues. And it is not the Foundation role imho to get
 >>involved with "content" or "quality" or "usability" directly. These are
 >>more communities issues. Imho.
 >
 >
 >>From the bylaws, as good a starting point as any :
 >     "The goals of the foundation are to encourage the further growth
 > and development of open content, social sofware WikiWiki-based
 > projects (see http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) and to provide the
 > full contents of those projects to the public free of charge."
 >
 > "further growth" - why encourage 'further growth', and not just
 > 'growth'?   Growth is not merely in size.   The projects should
 > continue to find new dimensions in which to grow; in audience and
 > quality and a variety of verbosity levels and more... as well as in
 > breadth and depth.
 >
 > "and development" - it is not enough for projects to grow, they should
 > also develop in accordance with with other goals.  improved interfaces
 > and improved usability, for instance, also improve the ability of the
 > projects to 'provide their contents to the public.'
 >
 > "social sofware" - (a typo in the original pdf)  the social aspects of
 > the project are not incidental to the foundation, but central to its
 > growth and success.  Any collection of contact points tasked by the
 > Board with keeping up with developments on the projects should include
 > someone with a sense of how the social aspects of the existing
 > software are working, how users feel about it, and how this can be
 > improved.

Okay :-)

 > As to Chris M's suggestion of an additional government-relations
 > focus, I agree that this subject too merits regular attention, and a
 > few people who attend specifically to keeping up with it.  Many
 > governments have subsections devoted to archiving, librarianship,
 > promotion of free knowledge and education, and other goals closely
 > aligned with those of Wiki[mp]edia.
 >
 > SJ

Hmmm, I must have been distracted and missed this. where is this 
discussion ?

Ant