[Foundation-l] NEH Grant résumés

Sun Jul 11 12:50:36 UTC 2004

I have taken up the /Staff section of of the grant application. 
Having consulted with others the best way to do this seems to be for
anyone willing to help with the grant to send a résumé to
reflection at gmail.com.  I will compile them.  Please tailor your
experiences/education towards relevancy to WikiMedia.

We are especially interested in résumés from developers and
bureaucrats, but all are necessarily welcome. All Board members are
asked to submit.  In addition, we need as many people as possible to
answer the following questions.  Please do not reply to the mailing
list, but to reflection at gmail.com  This will prevent clutter and will
maintain your privacy/anonymity.

1) What is your full name and nickname? (Include a URL to your user page).

2) Describe your duties at Wikipedia and qualifications for those
duties.  If you have a title what is your title, and how long have you
held it.

3) Indicate the amount of time that you, the projects staff,
anticipate committing to the project on a monthly basis (hours), and
for how many months, years.

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>    1. Re: NEH grant (Daniel Mayer)
>    2. Re: Re: NEH grant (Daniel Mayer)
>    3. Re: Re: NEH grant (Daniel Mayer)
>    4. Re: Re: NEH grant (Daniel Mayer)
>    5. Status of logo copyright (Angela_)
>    6. Re: NEH grant (Michael Snow)
>    7. Re: Status of logo copyright (Imran Ghory)
>    8. Re: Status of logo copyright (Imran Ghory)
>    9. Wikimedia Foundation Meeting, 4 July 2004 (Angela_)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:52:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] NEH grant
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
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> --- Sj <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:28:46 -0700 (PDT), Christopher Mahan
> > And we should renew our efforts to get support through donation, no
> > matter what.  Demonstrating a strong ongoing base of community support will
> > help overcome the obstacle of not yet being a proper 501c3.
> 
> I completely agree.
> 
> > I agree wholeheartedly with this:
> >
> > > I would rather mav publish a monthly budget and post that to the
> > > front page, like this:
> 
> A monthly budget will require a monthly trustee meeting to approve such a
> document before posting. But doing so on the front page of any Wikimedia
> website seems to be like begging to me (or at least too much emphasis on
> financial matters). A permanent link and/or mention on the fundraising page
> along with a temporary mention on every page during fund drives seems to be
> enough, IMO.
> 
> > We should spur donations right away.  I hope we are planning to
> > get new machines in the coming week(s?); we need to replace the
> > money we are spending.  $2500 a month sounds like a reasonable
> > budget estimate for the rest of the year, and I think we could easily
> > meet that need through contributions.
> 
> I have forecasted that we will need to spend between $25,000 to $30,000 on
> hardware this quarter to keep up with the projected increase in traffic over
> last quarter. If our growth rate continues at 90% compounded quarterly, then we
> should expect to have to spend a bit less than twice that amount in Q4.
> 
> Things get a bit scary after that if we continue growing at the same rate (I'm
> still working on mitigating factors such as Moores law and still need to check
> with the developers to see if page requests, visits, or something else are a
> better measure of traffic - I've been using page requests).
> 
> In short - $2500 per month will not be enough.
> 
> Also, with all those servers the need for a full time on-site server admin
> increases.
> 
> Daniel Mayer,
> Wikimedia CFO
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:14:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Re: NEH grant
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
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> --- Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > ...
> > However, it would be nice to see more frequent updates just about
> > fundraising progress, which is what this suggestion focuses on. Those
> > who are particularly interested in this should be encouraged to donate
> > the funds necessary so that we can start paying Mav a salary. Otherwise,
> > it's unfair to expect anyone to assume that burden.
> 
> Actually please don't donate money for that - giving me money will not increase
> the number of hours in the day or reduce the number of hours I need to sleep
> (Wikipedia/Wikimedia is nearly a second full time job for me). Also, doing so
> would only add a small incentive for me to do more work in this area since I
> strongly suspect that such pay would pale in comparison to what I now receive
> as a GIS specialist (thus I would have to keep my day job). A full time server
> admin is far more important.
> 
> More voluneers welcome in the finance department. :)
> 
> -- mav
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:14:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Re: NEH grant
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
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> --- Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > ...
> > However, it would be nice to see more frequent updates just about
> > fundraising progress, which is what this suggestion focuses on. Those
> > who are particularly interested in this should be encouraged to donate
> > the funds necessary so that we can start paying Mav a salary. Otherwise,
> > it's unfair to expect anyone to assume that burden.
> 
> Actually please don't donate money for that - giving me money will not increase
> the number of hours in the day or reduce the number of hours I need to sleep
> (Wikipedia/Wikimedia is nearly a second full time job for me). Also, doing so
> would only add a small incentive for me to do more work in this area since I
> strongly suspect that such pay would pale in comparison to what I now receive
> as a GIS specialist (thus I would have to keep my day job). A full time server
> admin is far more important.
> 
> More voluneers welcome in the finance department. :)
> 
> -- mav
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:14:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Re: NEH grant
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
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> --- Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > ...
> > However, it would be nice to see more frequent updates just about
> > fundraising progress, which is what this suggestion focuses on. Those
> > who are particularly interested in this should be encouraged to donate
> > the funds necessary so that we can start paying Mav a salary. Otherwise,
> > it's unfair to expect anyone to assume that burden.
> 
> Actually please don't donate money for that - giving me money will not increase
> the number of hours in the day or reduce the number of hours I need to sleep
> (Wikipedia/Wikimedia is nearly a second full time job for me). Also, doing so
> would only add a small incentive for me to do more work in this area since I
> strongly suspect that such pay would pale in comparison to what I now receive
> as a GIS specialist (thus I would have to keep my day job). A full time server
> admin is far more important.
> 
> More voluneers welcome in the finance department. :)
> 
> -- mav
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 07:30:01 +0100
> From: Angela_ <beesley at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Status of logo copyright
> To: foundation-l at wikipedia.org
> Message-ID: <8b722b800407092330124c7035 at mail.gmail.com>
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> 
> (forwarded from wikipedia-l)
> 
> > --- David Friedland <david at nohat.net> wrote on wikipedia-l
> > > Before I left on my unannounced wikivacation, Jimbo
> > > e-mailed me about
> > > the copyright logo. He seemed to be under the
> > > impression that I had
> > > assigned my rights to the logo to the Wikimedia
> > > foundation, but I don't
> > > believe that I had.
> > >
> > > I am happy to assign my copyrights over the logo to
> > > the Wikimedia
> > > Foundation. However, I am unsure how to do that in a
> > > binding way.
> > > Furthermore, I don't believe that the Foundation
> > > actually owns any
> > > copyrights yet and I have some questions about how
> > > this will be handled.
> > > Has anyone else assigned their copyrights to the
> > > Foundation? Are there
> > > policies about how the foundation is going to handle
> > > the copyrights it
> > > holds? What benefit would there be to my assigning
> > > the copyright to the
> > > foundation rather than just licensing it at no cost
> > > for various purposes?
> > >
> > > As I said, I am happy to assign the copyrights to
> > > the foundation, but I
> > > want to be sure of what I am doing before I jump in
> > > and do it, because
> > > there are no "take-backs" in the world of copyright.
> > >
> > > - David Friedland
> 
> David, it's great to hear you are happy to do this. As far as I know,
> the only copyrights assigned to the Foundation so far are those of
> Jimbo and certain edits by Bomis staff. The Foundation doesn't
> currently have any policies on the handling of its copyrights. I don't
> know how binding making an informal assignment on the mailing list
> would be; perhaps a lawyer could advise whether you need to physically
> sign something.
> 
> In terms of benefits, for the Foundation, owning the copyright would
> be easier than having a licence, as it means it is free to do what it
> likes with the logo, rather than having any restrictions that might
> cause problems later on. I'm not sure what the benefits to you are
> though, other than not having to worry about writing a licence, and
> not having the Foundation bothering you in years to come about whether
> they can use the logo for some purpose not originally mentioned in the
> licence.
> 
> Angela
> (just my thoughts, not on behalf of Wikimedia)
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:55:16 -0700
> From: Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Re: NEH grant
> To: foundation-l at wikimedia.org
> Message-ID: <40F01164.5090200 at earthlink.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Daniel Mayer wrote:
> 
> >--- Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net <http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l>> wrote:
> >> ...
> >> However, it would be nice to see more frequent updates just about
> >> fundraising progress, which is what this suggestion focuses on. Those
> >> who are particularly interested in this should be encouraged to donate
> >> the funds necessary so that we can start paying Mav a salary. Otherwise,
> >> it's unfair to expect anyone to assume that burden.
> >
> >Actually please don't donate money for that - giving me money will not increase
> >the number of hours in the day or reduce the number of hours I need to sleep
> >(Wikipedia/Wikimedia is nearly a second full time job for me). Also, doing so
> >would only add a small incentive for me to do more work in this area since I
> >strongly suspect that such pay would pale in comparison to what I now receive
> >as a GIS specialist (thus I would have to keep my day job). A full time server
> >admin is far more important.
> >
> Sorry, I meant that to be tongue-in-cheek, not as a particularly serious
> suggestion (yet). My point was mostly that if people have expectations
> like that, they need to consider whether they're prepared to contribute
> what's necessary to make it possible. There's only so much you can
> "require" from volunteers. And I agree that for the future day when we
> start hiring salaried employees, a server admin is a bigger priority.
> 
> --Michael Snow
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:21:54 +0100 (BST)
> From: Imran Ghory <imran at bits.bris.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Status of logo copyright
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Cc: foundation-l at wikipedia.org
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> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Angela_ wrote:
> 
> > David, it's great to hear you are happy to do this. As far as I know,
> > the only copyrights assigned to the Foundation so far are those of
> > Jimbo and certain edits by Bomis staff. The Foundation doesn't
> > currently have any policies on the handling of its copyrights. I don't
> > know how binding making an informal assignment on the mailing list
> > would be; perhaps a lawyer could advise whether you need to physically
> > sign something.
> 
> The FSF have a standard copyright assignment contract they get
> contributors to GNU projects to sign, I'm sure if we asked them they'd let us use a
> modified version of their contract.
> 
> Imran
> --
> http://bits.bris.ac.uk/imran
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:21:54 +0100 (BST)
> From: Imran Ghory <imran at bits.bris.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Status of logo copyright
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Cc: foundation-l at wikipedia.org
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0407101719530.19241 at bits.bris.ac.uk>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Angela_ wrote:
> 
> > David, it's great to hear you are happy to do this. As far as I know,
> > the only copyrights assigned to the Foundation so far are those of
> > Jimbo and certain edits by Bomis staff. The Foundation doesn't
> > currently have any policies on the handling of its copyrights. I don't
> > know how binding making an informal assignment on the mailing list
> > would be; perhaps a lawyer could advise whether you need to physically
> > sign something.
> 
> The FSF have a standard copyright assignment contract they get
> contributors to GNU projects to sign, I'm sure if we asked them they'd let us use a
> modified version of their contract.
> 
> Imran
> --
> http://bits.bris.ac.uk/imran
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:26:49 +0100
> From: Angela_ <beesley at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Meeting, 4 July 2004
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
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> 
> Wikimedia Foundation Meeting La Maison des Metallos, Paris, 4 July 2004.
> 
> Present: Angela Beesley, Florence Nibart-Devouard and Jimmy Wales.
> 
> 1) Wikimedia website
> 2) Developer issues
> 3) Grants and Official Positions
> 4) Trademark
> 5) Board members
> 6) AOB
> 
> 1) Wikimedia website
> 
> The aim of the Foundation website is to increase the visibility and
> transparency of the Foundation and to provide a central location and
> summary of all the information.
> 
> It was decided to host the Wikimedia Foundation website on a separate
> wiki (see http://wikimedia.org/wiki). This allows other users to add
> translations, and to help with the addition of technical details,
> including page views. Some pages, such as the mission statement, will
> be protected and editable only by the Board. Users can suggest changes
> to these on Meta, and the changes will be adopted onto the main site
> following Board approval.
> 
> A number of translations will be needed for widely spoken languages,
> including those which currently have only small Wikipedias, such as
> Spanish.
> 
> Information for the press will be included in a summarized format.
> Efforts will be made to keep this up to date, unlike the current pages
> on Wikimedia.
> 
> Global policies, such as privacy and terms of use, will be included on
> this website. While respecting the "wiki way", these will need to be
> approved by the board before they are changed for legal reasons.
> 
> The wiki will not be open to anonymous edits and only authorized
> accounts will be opened.
> 
> 2) Developer issues
> 
> The creation of a developer committee was proposed, with one or two
> developers to be assigned official positions by Board.
> 
> Sub-committees should be developed, such as one to discuss ways of
> checking performance. It was noted that Looxix had requested shell
> access to help with the tracking of performance related issues.
> 
> Assignment of shell access was discussed and the issue of whom should
> be allowed to hand out such access was raised. It was proposed that
> when a developer committee is formed, they work on a policy to cover
> such issues.
> 
> Plans for downtime are needed. The developers should be aware of who
> is responsible for ensuring downtime notices are placed on the site,
> and that the relevant people, such as Brion Vibber, are informed of
> downtime.
> 
> Plans to avoid unnecessary downtime should be made.
> 
> When planning the hardware architecture, it was noted that we need to
> think longer term about this.
> 
> 3) Grants and Official Positions
> 
> When making grant applications, it is important to present a united
> front. We should not be presenting multiple applications from
> different users without knowing who is sending what. We must appear to
> be collaborating on this, so all applications should be logged at one
> central location.
> 
> Some grant applications require an authorized signature. It was
> proposed that grant applications be double signed by the person making
> the application and by one member of the Board. This requirement will
> be noted on the Wikimedia Foundation website to prevent non-authorized
> applications which are not made in the name of Wikimedia.
> 
> The Board does not believe there should be any requirements that
> people be qualified in any particular field to hold an official
> position. We should not limit these places to professionals.
> 
> 4) Trademark
> 
> There is a requirement for certain standards to be met in the places
> our logo is used. We should aim to be NPOV rather than give the
> impression that the Foundation is endorsing anything. Particular care
> should be taken in printed versions that advertising is appropriately
> marked as such, and does not appear to be an endorsement.
> 
> A policy for situations in which the logo may be used will be
> developed. This will ensure it is only used in a way which is
> consistent with the community's values.
> 
> The situation regarding the rights to use the logo is not yet clear.
> Jimbo is in contact with David Friedland (Nohat) about this. It was
> felt important that David would not have veto rights over where the
> logo is used.
> 
> 5) Board members
> 
> Tim and Michael will have less active involvement than the other
> members of the Board but Jimbo stated that their presence on the Board
> would not mean the votes of Angela and Anthere would be automatically
> overridden. It was suggested that the Board should be enlarged at some
> point, possibly later this year, and that prominent people external to
> Wikipedia could be invited to hold positions on the Board.
> 
> 6) AOB
> 
> Jimbo will contact a German lawyer regarding the registration of the
> Wikimedia trademark in Germany, which someone else is currently
> attempting to register.
> 
> Alex Roshuk is completing the forms required to gain 501(c)3 status.
> 
> Approval was given for the proposed email from the German Wikipedia to
> wissen-de regarding our copyright violation.
> 
> Daniel Mayer was appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer.
> He will work closely with Anthere on financial matters. Jimbo will ask
> Michael Davis to take on the role of treasurer. Michael will have the
> role of overseeing the finances at the end of the year, and
> occasionally during the year, but Anthere will be responsible for this
> on a more day-to-day basis.
> 
> ----
> 
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