With respect to Jorge's questions:
1) All devices are 128 Gb now
2) They ship with MDWiki and en Wikipedia at least.
3) Everyone who has received a device has also agreed to fill in a
questionnaire at some point. Havn't gotten around to that bit yet.
4) I also collect what people want it for when they reach out. Answers vary
from home schooling, to living on a boat, to time capsule, to hurricaine
backup, to medical clinics in the developing world, to local libraries.
5) Most are going to the US but also some to Europe, Canada, and Australia.
The rare device to the DRC, East Timor, and India.
James
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> Hi James! So lovely to hear from you.
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> Out of curiosity, can you share more about what latest build of the
> internet in a box at estoy shipping? Where are they going and how did they
> reached out? What content are you shipping them with and what memory
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> Super interesting stuff!! Are you planning to get any feedback from these
> users once they start testing and suing the devices? That would also be
> really cool learning.
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> Hug,
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> > We have seen a significant increase in interest in these devices this
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> > As such we are increasing what we charge to distribute them to 50 USD
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> > so we are not losing money on each device. Also hopefully this will make
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We have seen a significant increase in interest in these devices this
month, having shipped 24 devices so far.
As such we are increasing what we charge to distribute them to 50 USD each
so we are not losing money on each device. Also hopefully this will make it
easier for others to get into distribution.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
Hello friends
Now is the time to vote in the 2022 Board of Trustees election.
CONTEXT AND EXPLAINATION
As a reminder... there are 2 open positions :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
12 candidates :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candida…
Each candidate proposed a candidate presentation and statement (see link
above)
And had the opportunity to answer to 15 questions
You may find their answers here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Affilia…
(*)
Please note that the answers are short, so it will not be a super
consuming task to get to know candidates positions better on some matters.
1st Round
Each affiliate will cast a vote, which will serve to shorten the 12
candidates list to a 6 candidates list.
2nd Round
Community members will have the opportunity to vote on the short list of
6 candidates
We are currently at 1st Round.
I was given access to the voting interface.
Voting info :
* This election is using the Single Transferable Vote methodology
("STV").
* On the voting page is a sequence of dropdown boxes. Starting from
the top of the page, select the candidates in order of preference,
from "Preference 1" (most preferred) to "Preference 12" (least
preferred).
* You do not need to rank every candidate. You may stop ranking
candidates at any point. For example, you can choose to only rank
one candidate, or four candidates, or all of the candidates.
* You are allowed to change your vote during the election. This will
overwrite your previous vote. You can do this as many times as you like.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
1) read the candidates statements :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candida…
2) read the answers to the "up to 15" questions :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Affilia…
3) send me an email (please add Sj in copy) with your favorite choices.
------> For each candidate, please put a value between -5 to +5.
------> By default, all candidates will be at 0 points. So if you
support a candidate, please add a positive number. If you are opposed to
a candidate, please add a negative number.
I will merge those figures to get a ranking, which I will submit to the
voting interface.
Please do send me the email before JULY 12 !
Best
Flo
(*) I reported the Offline UG question from Zeljko Blace. It has been
"merged" into several questions
Hello everyone
I will attend the Wikimedia Summit as offline contact in face-to-face mode.
But we can accomodate two more people with "distance" participation.
Any interested person ?
For all info about the Wikimedia Summit :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2022
Deadline for providing your name : 26th of July (I will be travelling
the last days of July, so not sure I will be able to connect to fill up
names)
Flo
-------- Message transféré --------
Sujet : Wikimedia Summit 2022 online Event Participants
Date : Thu, 14 Jul 2022 23:03:14 +0200
De : Wikimedia - Summit 2022 <summit2022(a)wikimedia.de>
Répondre à : Wikimedia - Summit 2022 <summit2022(a)wikimedia.de>
Pour : fdevouard(a)anthere.org
"Dear Florence Devouard
Thank you very much for your application to participate in the Wikimedia
Summit 2022. In addition to your 1 in-person slot, your affiliate has a
total of 2 online slots for representatives to join the event online via
our event platform.
In order to nominate these 2 people, please log in to our event platform
and click on ""nominate your representative"". If you nominiate
yourself, please also add your own data into the form. Please enter each
person’s name and email address into this form.
url link removed from public access
Deadline to nominate your representatives is July 31. In August, all
nominees will receive the link to the event registration.
Thank you.
The Wikimedia Summit organizing team "
Dear fellows - I would like to offline host
minimal set of Wiki pages (Wikipedias, Wikispore, Commons)
and minimal set of media (images, video and audio)
that all branch out from single Reasonator
(or Portal.toolforge.org) search...
...and that keep global links beyond 2 degrees
(so that one can use them to continue online).
For now I think of just downloading pages offline
and hosting them as mobile wiki-to-static pages
using wget with manual corrections.
I would love to do this for monuments and
tiny libraries like this https://w.wiki/5QWn
so maybe have library-like single-file wiki
(like https://tiddlywiki.com system)
so that users could connect to it
and live notices.
Anyone has idea if and how to do this better
and package in the most elegant way?
Anyone interested in collaborating?
Best Z. Blace
Dear friends of Offline
I received this email today (it would have been lovely to be given a
LITTLE BIT more head up).
To make it short (if you are not interested in reading what is below),
there is a call for question to ask for the candidates to the board of
Trustees.
I was invited to a private forum, where I can post questions asked by UG
members. Then up or down vote questions. Deadline for submission and
vote is June 17
So... if you have any question you would like to propose to ask to the
candidates to answer, please send them now (either to the list, or to me
privately)
Thanks
Florence
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Sujet : Ask questions for the 2022 Board candidates to answer
Date : Fri, 10 Jun 2022 21:56:53 +0300
De : Mervat Salman <msalman-ctr(a)wikimedia.org>
Pour : fdevouard(a)gmail.com
Copie à : Tila Cappelletto (WMF) <tcappelletto-ctr(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear Representative of Wikimedians for Offline Wikis,
I am reaching out to you as you have been nominated to represent your
affiliate in the Board of Trustees election voting. Affiliates have the
opportunity to ask questions to the Board candidates. The process has
now been decided by the Board Selection Task Force and Elections Committee.
The process will use the new Movement Strategy Forum
<https://forum.movement-strategy.org/>, based on the open-source
platform Discourse <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software)>.
The great thing about Discourse is messages can be automatically
translated by users into their preferred language. In a separate email,
we are sending you an invitation to join a private
category<https://forum.movement-strategy.org/c/ensure-equity-in-decision-making/wmf-…>on
the MS Forum. In this private space, all affiliate representatives can
propose questions and vote on them easily. You will use your Wikimedia
account to log in, there is no need to create a new account and password.
You will propose questions in this category. Then everyone will vote on
questions you would like the candidates to answer. The top 15 questions
will be selected. Candidates will have 3 days to post their answers in
the same private space. After these 3 days, the category will become
public and everyone will be welcome to read the candidates’ answers.
If you prefer not to join this process to propose questions on the
Forum, you can send us your questions via email. If you want to vote on
questions, then we kindly ask you to log in to have all the votes in one
place.
Here are the dates to remember:
*
June 10 - 17: Deadline to propose questions and vote on the questions
*
June 18 - 21: Candidates answer questions
*
June 22: Answers to questions are made public
The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the
Movement Strategy and Governance team. MSG will check that the questions
are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, etc. In the same private
category there will be a place to inform you about these changes, and
also to help you with technical matters if needed.
If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please write
back to me.
Best,
*
*
*Mervat Salman (She/Her)*
Movement Strategy and Governance Facilitator
wikimediafoundation.org <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear all,
It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia
Foundation Board of Trustees.
This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to
go look in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should
know...
1) Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two
step-process
Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial
list of candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes
pooled together, a short list of 6 candidates will be sorted
Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short
list.
In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates
2) Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candida…
They have provided initial statements.
3) Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare a
process so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will
sort ONE name.
4) I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should
they be interested to, on this mailing list
Cheers
Florence
We are to rank all candidates. Shani has also done great work these last
few years and has supported offline efforts during this time. She is
currently on the board so has excellent experience of what is involved.
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> Dear all,
>
>
> It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia
> Foundation Board of Trustees.
>
> This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to
> go look in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on :
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
>
> However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should
> know...
>
> 1) Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two
> step-process
>
> Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial
> list of candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes
> pooled together, a short list of 6 candidates will be sorted
> Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short
> list.
>
> In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates
>
>
> 2) Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here :
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candida…
> They have provided initial statements.
>
> 3) Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare a
> process so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will
> sort ONE name.
>
>
> 4) I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should
> they be interested to, on this mailing list
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Florence
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 09:23:50 +0200
> From: Stephane Coillet-Matillon <stephane(a)kiwix.org>
> Subject: [Offline-l] Re: WMF board elections are back
> To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline
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>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for this Florence. I’ve gone through the list of candidates and
> there are very fine people (better that than the opposite!).
>
> We at Kiwix, however, would like to single out Kunal Mehta <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm> (legoktm), who has been a
> long-time supporter of Kiwix within the Foundation (I might stand corrected
> but he also single-handedly ensured Debian ports for it and volunteered top
> code). Needless to say (but I am still saying it), Kunal has been getting
> our Kiwix-branded chocolates ever since we started sending them out.
>
> I encourage you to read his bio/user page <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm> - Kunal is not just a
> coder, but has a vision for free knowledge. I am told he left the WMF last
> December, so my take here is that we would have a trustee here that 1.
> Understands the tech 2. Understands the WMF and 3. Understands us (the
> offline crowd). That’s a lot boxes to tick.
>
> My little informative email has turned into a longer-than-expected soapbox
> campaigning, but so be it. If you home chapter is undecided about whom to
> support, I encourage you to forward it to them as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephane
>
> > Le 18 mai 2022 à 20:22, Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com> a écrit
> :
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> >
> > It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia
> Foundation Board of Trustees.
> >
> > This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to
> go look in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on :
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
> >
> > However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should
> know...
> >
> > 1) Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two
> step-process
> >
> > Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial
> list of candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes pooled
> together, a short list of 6 candidates will be sorted
> > Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short
> list.
> >
> > In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates
> >
> >
> > 2) Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here :
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candida…
> > They have provided initial statements.
> >
> > 3) Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare a
> process so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will
> sort ONE name.
> >
> >
> > 4) I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should
> they be interested to, on this mailing list
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > Florence
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