[Foundation-l] Social networking (was: Analysis of lists statistics: community in decline)

[Milos Rancic]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, we are making business to Facebook. The point is to keep users at
>> our site, not at some other site.
>
> I thought the point was "to empower and engage people around the world to
> collect and develop educational content under a free
> license<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content>or in the public
> domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally"

I don't see the connection between those two issues. You quoted WMF's
(and our) general goal, I was talking about how to work on it. Besides
all other things, one of the methods is to keep users at our sites
instead of building tools for commercial (and close source) platforms.