Comments for Élan Vital

Comment on Google’s Knowledge Graph: connecting structured knowledge from diverse sources by Trace Palmer

Trace Palmer — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:17:03 +0000

I love to see how google works and what makes the algorithm tick… ty for sharing.

Comment on Objectivist-C: an Aristotelian programming language by Shauna

Shauna — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:53:57 +0000

Love it. (But I still love lolcode more.)

Comment on G1G1 2008 : give a laptop, change the world by Giga spomb

Giga spomb — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:09:17 +0000

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Comment on Learning, freedom, and the Web by elsa

elsa — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:34:44 +0000

Thanks for your efforts..

You’re welcome.

Comment on Duolingo: double your pleasure? by Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:47:35 +0000

duolingo is a super cool idea. I looked a bit when it was announced and didn’t notice anything indicating freeness beyond gratis of any part. Have I missed anything? I think translation is pretty important, and it always makes me sad that apart from project translation tools (pootle, transifex, etc) freeness seems to be pretty much completely absent.

Comment on Universal feelings by Rocky

Rocky — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:30:10 +0000

Nice haha. Love the slow wifi one!

Comment on Celebrity Deathmatch: Sendak v. Colbert, Part 1 by savannah

savannah — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:02:05 +0000

Is this a script?

Yes!

Comment on OER awards: an annual celebration of free knowledge by elsa

elsa — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:45:10 +0000

If its not been translated or adopted as Mike says, I can do it upon demand

regards,
elsa

Comment on Bilingual Political Debates by elsa

elsa — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:38:42 +0000

It is not as easy as thought of course.
Rendering a language in another language simultaneously is a difficult work..

it is a difficult but enjoyable experience ı think.

Comment on OER awards: an annual celebration of free knowledge by Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:48:46 +0000

Great idea (and I hadn’t heard of the Zedler Prize, looking forward to that). Please require a free license.

How about indicators of usefulness? Has resource been translated, otherwise used, adopted…?

Comment on Universal feelings by julia

julia — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:01:35 +0000

too funny

Comment on Winds of America by medat spavunyar

medat spavunyar — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:09:38 +0000

mercurial!

Comment on Winds of America by mika

mika — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:28:52 +0000

♥

Comment on G1G1 2008 : give a laptop, change the world by Randall Britneyspam

Randall Britneyspam — Tue, 01 May 2012 04:04:17 +0000

I’m still learning from you, but I’m improving myself.

Comment on Celebrity Deathmatch: Sendak v. Colbert, Part 1 by Magali Spamyre

Magali Spamyre — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:37:56 +0000

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Comment on Awesome 1-yr Wikipedia Fellowship open at Harvard’s Belfer Center by hava spanna

hava spanna — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:34:46 +0000

İs application out of USA accepted, and what is the assumed salary of that position?

I assume yes, for fluent English writers, but the post doesn’t specify that or the salary. Write them to inquire.

Comment on Managing the Scholarship Dilemma of well-funded communities by sumana h.

sumana h. — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:07:53 +0000

This is so great. Thank you for writing it. When we run the next big funded hackathon (I'm currently working on sponsorships for the Berlin hackathon in June) I'll keep a lot of this in mind. This year I did a bunch of outreach and specifically reached out to nontraditional attendees (people who work on gadgets, templates, and bots) to ask them to come to the event, and we are spending a big chunk of WMF's volunteer development budget for the current fiscal year to encourage and sponsor such people. Next year, I think it would be good to follow your guidelines, to help avoid turning subsidies for travel to the Berlin hackathon into a default expectation. Thanks again. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator

Comment on Taking the Steel Blogger Challenge by Benjamin Mako Hill

Benjamin Mako Hill — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:12:53 +0000

Use ikiwiki. It is based on git, has a blog mode, and is a world editable wiki. It’s very configurable and I think it will do most of what you want out of the box.

Comment on Managing the Scholarship Dilemma of well-funded communities by Nemo

Nemo — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:37:06 +0000

There are no easy solutions, but I consider the definition of the aim very simple: scholarships must be an added value for the society, not for the recipients.

When an event is considered useful without doubt, as in the case of Wikimania, it would be easy to reduce costs by saying that you should ask a scholarship only if your (family?) income is below a certain amount. This would easily convey the concept and hopefully community members won’t cheat.
Reimbursement of travel costs to give a presentation or organize something new, on the other hand, are justified only if nobody could do the same thing locally and the thing is very important (both aspects are quitge difficult to judge centrally, and grants given by the WMF to individuals for specific purposes are quite worrying).

Small personal experience. In 2010 Wikimania was near enough and I attended to reinstate an Italian presence after many years of absence, convincing a few other WMIT members. In 2011, the chapter helped with some scholarships. In 2012, the participation of Italians to Wikimania is considered obvious, and I won’t go again, but the chapter felt the need to fund it again a bit.

Comment on Taking the Steel Blogger Challenge by Bastien

Bastien — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:42:26 +0000

If you use Emacs, just set up a website with Org-mode, publishing HTML pages from there (with comments with disqus) and put the .org files under git.

This is what I started quite some time ago with Worg (http://orgmode.org/worg/), it is the first dVCS-based “wiki” and it works well.

Comment on Genre-Mapping Books by Isildur

Isildur — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:51:11 +0000

It is perfect time to make some plans for the future and it’s time to be happy.

Comment on Hacking Education with Hewlett’s OER Grantees by metasj

metasj — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:06:48 +0000

Not yet. Putting it in my queue to write today! I made this claim on the first day, and Rob Faris and I got into a short debate about what this would mean, and whether/where the analogy breaks down.