[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Radio

[Brion Vibber]

Brian McNeil wrote:
> As one of the Wikinews contributors has pointed out, this is starting to
> come together and look like something achievable. With that in mind, I have
> been advised to move the discussion over to meta and perhaps make it a
> little less of a Wikinews project and more of a Wikimedia project.

Sweet!

> It is my intention to do so over the coming week, but I would gratefully
> welcome advice from people on this list as to how to put together a proposal
> that will get a favourable reception. We're talking about using a lot of
> non-MediaWiki software for this, but the packages suggested all have the
> needed scalability. The technical hurdles to overcome do not seem
> impossible, I just wish I could get a half hour of Brion's time to help make
> a start on software specifications.

Try to grab me on IRC some time Monday or Tuesday...

As you note, there's a lot of pretty well-grounded free software out 
there to put this sort of thing together, so I don't envision any huge 
technical difficulties getting something off the ground.

-- brion