Hi Juan
Juan de Vojníkov schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> If we are talking about billing, I would say that cheapest way is to rent a
> server for one or 2 years. So would it be a problem for WMDE to offer us
> support for one year?
Can you show me the different offers? How much cheaper would it be to rent for 1
year in advance, or even for 2?
Again, this is for Pavel to decide, but the larget the advance commitment, the
greater the reluctance. I imagine that this would get easier once we see the
project actually taking off. We have, err, mixed experiences with this kind of
thing.
> Also to send a reports every 3 month means the reports
> will be very simillar.
No problem. The point of the reports is to track activity and progress. We are
liable to our donors, we have to document that we kame good use of the money the
give us.
> And one more comment from me. If I analyze conditions: *The server hosts only
> projects, software, etc. which are for the Wikimedia community - hope that
> WMDE understand, that Wikiversity is a place to host different communities of
> learners and teachers. It means, there might be group of students from
> different schools etc. using Wikiversity to fulfill their real life education
> goals within our projects. So my question would be if these are understand
> as Wikimedia community and if they can also operate on SS?
Heh, more policy questions - I'm the tech guy :P AS far as I understand, it
would be fine to do anything there that is compatible with the goals and mission
of wikimedia in general and wikiversity specifically. So, I suppose the projects
should revolve about sharing knowledge, i.e. free content and open access. But
they don't have to be limited to the actual wiki community.
basically, this requirement is to make sure that folks don't run a quake server
or a spam relay there. So, how about this:
You come up with a mission statment and general rules for projects, and WMDE
signs off on it.
> o Our ideas for the next three months (which extensions, software, etc.
> should be develop, which software should test, etc.) - this might be hard to
> say, but as I commented before, Wikiversity core community is quite small. So
> every 3 month the report will be very similar. And if well stay with the
> original idea that SS is open to all Wikiversity participants in all
> languages with some core administrators, I think it might be difficult to
> say, what for example is this or that person planning to deploy next month.
Well, it should be possible to come up with a plan. If you don't have any idea
what you want to do, why start? So I suppose you do have some ideas. Just write
them down!
It's not a requirement that you stick to the plan. We just want to know what you
want to do, and what is actually happening. That's all. If the report is very
similar every time - well, I'd hope that there's at least some progress in
development and deployment, maybe some figures like number of users, of tools,
of page views, etc.
The report doesn't need to be entertaining, boring is fine with us :)
-- daniel