[Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

Michael Snow wikipedia at frontier.com
Sun Aug 7 00:32:42 UTC 2011


On 8/6/2011 4:00 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
> On 8/6/11 1:36 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
>> On 8/5/2011 4:26 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Michael Snow<wikipedia at frontier.com>    wrote:
>>>> .. Honestly, I must say that it
>>>> is a colossal disappointment to find that with all the posts I've seen
>>>> both here and on internal-l, nobody has yet made a single edit to the
>>>> talk page on Meta where the letter was posted. Doesn't anybody here know
>>>> how to use a wiki?
>>> Michael, the board announcement is not a good way to start a conversation.
>>> Perhaps it is you who doesn't know how to use a wiki. :P
>> That's funny, it seems to have started quite a bit of conversation. I
>> just wanted to point out that we have these recurring arguments about
>> the "right" mailing list to use, when we keep ignoring the arguably more
>> open and transparent forum we're all familiar with.
> A (very) significant part of the discussion was held in face to face for
> all those who were at Wikimania.
An excellent proof in support of why it was urgent to get the letter out 
now. I'm sorry I couldn't be there to participate.

--Michael Snow




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