May
29
2009
Recently, Wikimedia had a community-wide vote, and the Board of Directors subsequently passed a resolution, switching from the GNU Free Documentation License, or GFDL (what the contents of Wikipedia and its sister projects, except for Wikinews & bits of Commons, are currently licensed under) to dual-licensing with Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (or CC-BY-SA), which is [...]
May
28
2009
Not much updating the last couple weeks as I have been first in Seattle, which was great fun and gorgeous weather (and so nice to just relax and not even think about work for one minute; I think the person I was staying with needed that too, so it worked out nicely). I also went [...]
May
19
2009
The Wikimedia-SF meetup group is once again organizing a booth for Maker Faire, that delightful ensemble of participatory art, Burning man hacks, steampunk and DIY culture that happens every year in San Mateo. This year the Faire is May 30 and 31 (weekend after next!) We are seeking people to help out with the booth, [...]
May
14
2009
I keep forgetting about the draft feature in WordPress; I’m working on small essays about half a dozen things, but mostly in my head. At any rate, I don’t think I moved No Maps just to then abandon it… poor blog! We (finally!) started a blog at work. So far it is just news about [...]