I'm so overjoyed to see we've taken this step! Good work Board, Staff, Counsel, and everyone else!!! It always seemed our obvious destiny to lend a helping hand to important issues like this, I'm really really happy that this day has arrived.
> Is there anything we can do, in practical terms, to support this? Yes. Provided we don't use significant foundation resources, we do have power to put this Copyright Question "on the map" if we really want to. Jimmy or another prominent wikimedian doing an interview with Stewart/Colbert, Maddow (who tends toward the geek), or any other news outlet. I leave it to wiser minds to decide whether this is worth doing. But eventually an issue will come along where it will be worth doing. Personally, I think think the WMF has already 'crossed the rubicon' by joining the suit-- the powers-that-be that are upset by that are upset already-- so having taken a stance, why not publicize it? I tend to think any time we can be seen standing next to the the Librarians, we come off looking good. The most we can associate those two-- ALA, WMF; ALA, WMF; The more we do that, the more outsiders will "get" us as a legitimate social institution, rather than see us as "just another website" paid for by reader donation. Alec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
