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We are in discussions with two organisations about the possibility of offering on-demand book printing from Wikipedia. One of these organisations printed a Wikireader on Frankfurt during Wikimania for a test. Our current concern is that by doing so, we are potentially stepping beyond the protections of the DMCA and running an unacceptably high level of copyright risk. So, we are currently moving at slow speed on the matter. |
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We reached an agreement in last spring to provide a live feed of our public data to '''Answers.com''', live feed which is still currently under work for full operability (Brion Vibber is currently working with them to make this happen. |
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Kennisnet is collaborating with Wikimedia in many ways; both by sponsoring software research and development, and by offering local hosting and the use of their servers. (For more information on Kennisnet collaborations, see ''Kennisnet'', pg 7.) |
Kennisnet is collaborating with Wikimedia in many ways; both by sponsoring software research and development, and by offering local hosting and the use of their servers. (For more information on Kennisnet collaborations, see ''Kennisnet'', pg 7.) |
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We reached an agreement to provide a live feed of our public data to '''Answers.com'''. |
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Brion Vibber is currently working with them to make this happen. [[w:Ask Jeeves|Ask Jeeves]] (a search engine) and [[w:Opera (browser)|Opera]] (a web browser company) are interested in such a feed as well, and Amazon.com has expressed some interest, but no agreements have been reached with any of them. |
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Another dozen hosting offers, both large and small, are under discussion. Some are tentative, some want "co-marketing opportunities," etc. Right now, we are telling most of them that we are interested but that we will not be technically ready for a few months; so we should talk now to plan ahead but are unlikely to announce anything soon. We must first organise the deals recently concluded, and take time to think and organise, rather than proceeding in haste. |
Another dozen hosting offers, both large and small, are under discussion. Some are tentative, some want "co-marketing opportunities," etc. Right now, we are telling most of them that we are interested but that we will not be technically ready for a few months; so we should talk now to plan ahead but are unlikely to announce anything soon. We must first organise the deals recently concluded, and take time to think and organise, rather than proceeding in haste. |
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Revision as of 08:20, 2 November 2005
General report
to be written
Overview
Board meetings
A complete list of notes from Board meetings may be seen at meetings.
- Latest meetings
- Budget meeting
- See also this recent list of open questions to the board.
Collaboration
Summary on collaboration
We worked out a number of collaborations with other organisations in the past six months, and are discussing many more.
- Kennisnet
- Yahoo
- DirectMedia
- Mandriva
- Answer.com
We are in discussions with two organisations about the possibility of offering on-demand book printing from Wikipedia. One of these organisations printed a Wikireader on Frankfurt during Wikimania for a test. Our current concern is that by doing so, we are potentially stepping beyond the protections of the DMCA and running an unacceptably high level of copyright risk. So, we are currently moving at slow speed on the matter.
We reached an agreement in last spring to provide a live feed of our public data to Answers.com, live feed which is still currently under work for full operability (Brion Vibber is currently working with them to make this happen.
Public Relations
Organisation
To be written
The road ahead
WSIS