Felon Became COO of Wikipedia Foundation

"Before she left in July, Carolyn Bothwell Doran, 45, had moved up from a part-time bookkeeper for the Wikimedia Foundation and spent six months as chief operating officer, responsible for personnel and financial management. In March, she signed the small nonprofit's tax...

A Really Smart Way to Raise Funds for Your Organization

The Linux Foundation reintroduced their Visa credit card today. The concept is simple: each time a Linux Foundation card holder uses their card, a donation is made to The Linux Fund by the card issuer, U.S. Bank. Think of it as reward points going where they are needed......

Two Top Wikipedians Resign

Chalk it up to growing pains within Web 2.0: when companies invent new ways of doing business they inevitably reach a point where they are making it up as they go along. In this case, two top board members are leaving Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia's  business entity)...

From Lift07, an appeal for funds - A Lift07, un appel pour éviter la dispari...

"“At this point, Wikipedia has the financial ressources to run its servers for about 3 to 4 months. If we do not find additional funding, it is not impossible that Wikipedia might disappear”. The warning by Florence Devouard, chairwoman of the Wikimedia Foundation "

Wikimedia chair Jimmy Wales steps down

"Wikimedia chair Jimmy Wales steps down "

Wikipedia at the crossroads

""The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia," he noted, "is that it's some emergent phenomenon -- the wisdom of mobs, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing -- thousands and thousands of individual users each adding a little bit of content and out of this emerges a...