[Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: October 2008

[effe iets anders]

Nice page. But could you perhaps also list the non-free software used there
sometime, so that the community could suggest otherwise? :)

2008/12/15 Erik Moeller <erik op wikimedia.org>

> 2008/12/14 effe iets anders <effeietsanders op gmail.com>:
> > But also have a small additional suggestion. Would it be nice to the
> > chapters to have somewhere a list of all major software WMF is using? As
> a
> > suggestion list? For example, GIMP for promotional images editing etc, so
> > that the chapters have an easier time looking for free software on
> > accounting etc. Would be great!
>
> I started a page for this purpose a while ago:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS-Exchange
>
> We have a mixed Mac/Linux office environment. We're not currently
> using open source software for accounting and for more complex design
> work. Most calendaring is done via Google right now.
> --
> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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