User talk:Sj/Nl

TOC and section assignments

Cover	Aurevilly, +sj+
Welcome	+sj+
Letter from the Founder	Jimbo
Letter from the Board	Board
Report: Administration	Board
Report: Collaboration
Report: Finance	mav, Michael
Report: Tech Dev	Tim Starling
Report: Community
Report: PR
Chapter Notes	Yannf, Anthere, elian, akl, &c.
Out of the Projects
Interview	+sj+, ?
Word on the Street
In Passing
The Four Corners
Gallery
Endnotes, Editorials	+sj+

Mandrake and CD publication
Yann will make a short report of the agreement in progress between Mandrake and Wikipedia for the CD publication. in which item should it be and how many lines do you think would be okay ? SweetLittleFluffyThing

List of major donations
http://wikimedia.org/wiki/How_you_can_help

General discussion

Name, logo

Quire/Quincunx? Crazy logo? Discuss, please. They are just placeholders for now. We can have an elaborate submission and voting session, since everyone has fun with those. (-: I would like a non-English (and preferably ancient-language) name, however. +sj+ 22:25, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

For the logo, it should be Wikimedia logo. For the name, I dunno, I know very little of ancient languages :-) SweetLittleFluffyThing

ant-notes 1

Nod :-)

Just have a couple of minutes; Regarding the question "Is there a need for a separate letter (informal) and administrative report (denser summary covering all new committees, sources/channels of information, awards, etc)?" I'd day yes. This would be on the WMF. Still, a summary with most impressive figures and graph should be there.

I tend to agree. removed question from content page.

Another point is the Mandrake distribution. I think something should be added in the newsletter on that topic.

Added section for 'Collaboration' report.

I would recommand that we somewhere place a clean summary of the various topics listed and put names in front of each (so we can see which is not taking care of and who should be doing what.

on this page, perhaps, via a more detailed TOC?

Btw, Jimbo and Angela are today spending most of their time at the BBC. I know not exactly when Jimbo will be back.

Right! I'm in NYC for the political convention here... won't really have good net access myself until tomorrow.

For the location of this document, I have no real opinion. Naturally, it would be best at meta, but for now, it can be here for graphical reasons.

perhaps we can move it to meta: before any big announcement...

I guess it may be time to announce it formally on the list.

I am very excited by the whole thing :-) Thank you :-) SweetLittleFluffyThing

My pleasure. I will be even more excited when I have a real report from one of the chapters or committees. Then I will know this is really going to happen. +sj+ 07:53, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

more ant notes

Location of the nl : I think it should be moved to meta, but we can keep it a little while on en for the reasons you mentionned perhaps ?

well, if you prefer, we can move it to meta then. Can you move it ? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_promotion#Newsletters

I think that the cover page having to do with "community" for the first release would be best. Because I think this first version is a lot about this. Communication and ciment. And it is important that it be prepared with people from various languages.

Do you think an image/collage from meetups is a good way to do this? If not, what else should we show there? That would probably determine the subject of the editorial, and perhaps even the subject of the gallery images/articles chosen.

Image collage would be best probably as there are many pictures. Thinking of it, I have not uploaded all my pictures... I will do this week end and start a draft. SweetLittleFluffyThing

Btw, I think that if some editors are not english, they should write their part in their mother language, and this part be translated in english.

Definitely. I hope the contributors reading this will lead the way by producing your parts in your native language(s) first, not just in english, even if you're going to write the english version yourself.

As for my name, being an official publication of the board, I think the real name is best, but reference should be made to my pseudo please. If you need to use a trigramme, my usual trigramme is fde.

I think the editorial menu should be put somewhere in clear, with names of all contributors for each part.

in the clear - you mean non-pseudos? not in a table? in a clear layout?

Just knowing who does what :-) Perhaps we should think of deadlines afterwards.

For the donor list, I will start a page to list them on wmf. I will need Jimbo's help to do so.

Good. I think mav may have email addresses for the big paypal donors... but that often doesn't provide a full name. Hmmm.

We need to be sure those donnors want to be listed. SweetLittleFluffyThing

See http://wikimedia.org/wiki/How_you_can_help for the list

Eric Raymond is fine by me. Jimbo or Tim, can you help?

I'm happy to contact him myself, but I hear he can be a bit crotchety, and want to make sure he says yes, and is in a good mood for the interview. +sj+ 10:02, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Tim says he does not know the guy but Jimbo does. You should talk with him to see what he would like best for the interview. SweetLittleFluffyThing

status reports from projects

It would be nice to gather some status reports from all the projects. not just numbers, but things like:

• what have been the major developments/hot debates,
• in which field was the most astonishing progress, success stories,
• could they win experts in some special field, &c.

greetings to all, elian

I thought of such a thing as well, but not really as reports from most projects. I was thinking of such a thing for one or two projects only, to put a flashlight on it. There are some projects, which are no where from small, but still, we rarely hear of. Hmmmm... perhaps like the spanish version ?

At least, *I* rarely hear about it :-) Though, it is a quite big version, and I suppose they also have a very rich life;

Indeed, if a special report, with light interview of some of its contributors, could be made each time for one project, it may cast a bit of light on it. It would nice to know more [about all these projects].

--anthere

My thought was that a summary of these project-notes would go under the "Community" quarterly report. We should make sure we acquire all of this information from each community every newsletter-cycle, even if there's no space in the newsletter for it. We can then offer details for one or two projects in each newsletter, include the biggest highlights across all projects [Nobel prize winner starts contributing to bg: !], and add a link to a meta-page with information on every project. +sj+ 09:42, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)