[Foundation-l] Think of the chilllllllllllldren

[David Gerard]

On 03/05/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> As Florence has already pointed out elsewhere, the Board seeks to
> define outcomes; resolutions like this should be put into more
> elaborate policies and processes on the operational level.
> We did not make that distinction for the licensing policy, where we
> laid out very explicitly what is and isn't permissible. That should be
> the exception, not the rule. In this case, Cary, Sandy and others who
> work with volunteers will be in charge of setting the practical limits
> for data access, i.e. interpreting the resolution. From that
> perspective, a lack of clarity is actually a good thing - as long as
> the resolution is not confused with the policy itself, which should
> become a separate document on Meta.


Fair enough. However, that leaves some fast developer relations work
to be done on wikitech-l ...


- d.