[Foundation-l] PediaPress

[Ryan Kaldari]

What's the URL for Robert's service? I would love to try it out. If the 
service isn't mature yet, is there a code repository somewhere?

Ryan Kaldari

On 11/13/10 10:00 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 13 November 2010 17:53, Magnus Manske<magnusmanske at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I'm all for that. But, did anyone actually ask the Foundation to have
>> his button included there (besides spammers et al.)? It's not like an
>> email is hard to write...
>>      
>
> Robert Horning has noted in this very thread:
>
> ===
> Based upon my own experience, I tried to get into the printed Wikimedia
> game at about the same time as PediaPress first started to get involved,
> but was openly dismissed and in fact my efforts thwarted.  I admit that
> the group I was working with at the time wasn't quite thinking of the
> direction that PediaPress went with their tool chain and there were some
> differences, but in the end it does explain some of the reception we got
> from the WMF board in terms of support for our little project (made up
> of mainly volunteers from Wikibooks at the time).
>
> There have been other groups who have tried to get into the role of
> printing materials from Wikimedia projects besides PediaPress, and I
> think it is disingenuous to suggest that the relationship is
> non-exclusive.  At the very least, the process for getting accepted as
> "an approved partner" has been very murky at best and seems more like
> political back scratching.
> ===
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-November/062385.html
>
> I leave the question of disingenuity to the reader.
>
>
> - d.
>
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