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Jun 29 2010

Wikimedia’s strategy, and the future

This is the last week for the formal strategic planning process for the Wikimedia Foundation. There are three newish summary pages worth noting:

An overview of movement priorities, which the project asks for help editing and refining
A call for action, or continued involvement in the process
And a page about the role of the Wikimedia Foundation in [...]

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Jun 13 2010

Wikipedians in Residence

My friend Liam Wyatt is the inaugural “Wikipedian in Residence” at the British Museum. He is there for a month (until Wikimania), and is building a program of outreach to the community and connections within the British Museum to improve Wikipedia articles related to the Museum and its contents. He hopes to make it a [...]

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Jun 05 2010

board(ing)

I am a candidate in the Chapter seat selection process for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees. This is akin to an election, but it’s a closed process that works as follows. The community and chapters were invited to nominate candidates they thought should be on the Board (people could also nominate themselves). Then the the [...]

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May 18 2010

Teaching Tech-Savvy Kids

I haven’t yet read it … but Jessica Parker’s book Teaching Tech-Savvy Kids: Bringing Digital Media Into the Classroom, Grades 5-12 came out this month. Geared at educators, Parker’s book and online community is about how young people use social media and how to understand and help them with it. Here’s the table of contents:
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Preface
Foreword [...]

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May 04 2010

libraries & DRM

N.b.: blog comments are still broken here at No Maps. Open-source software doesn’t fix anything if you don’t know how to use it!
N.b.2: post updated with a correction, & language clarified.

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Today is the Day Against DRM, the Free Software Foundation (FSF)’s Defective by Design campaign day of action.  DRM stands for “digital rights management”, [...]

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Mar 04 2010

(re)claiming space

Edit: this map of actions everywhere is amazing.
The chant of the day here at UCD’s protests and marches — part of the California-based national Day of Public Education protests, held March 4, the locus of a grassroots uprising and protest movement that has quickly gained steam to include all public education institutions affected by California’s [...]

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Aug 01 2009

Digital Open contest for youth: closing soon!

The Digital Open is a contest and community to encourage young innovators (age 17 and under) to develop, share and showcase their ideas for free & libre technology projects. The online contest will give prizes in categories such as open code projects, open community projects, science projects, environmental projects, games, entrepreneurial projects, and more: [...]

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