Archive:Board letter
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
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