<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Leslie Carr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lcarr@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">lcarr@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com" target="_blank">nemowiki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Just spotted this (<a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2013-August/006260.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2013-August/006260.html</a> ):<br>
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> > I'm more than happy to recommend a number of cloud services and am<br>
> > more than willing to give advice on how to configure and run tools<br>
> > and bots from those services. It's even possible to reuse the work<br>
> > we're doing in the tools project, or in the Wikimedia infrastructure<br>
> > via our puppet repository since our infrastructure is Open Source.<br>
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> Very nice idea – how I get the mysql-replication-stream? I got several<br>
> offers of donation if the Toolserver would continue; the only problem is<br>
> the replication-data. But because the data is open-source, it shouldn’t<br>
> be a problem than, should it?<br>
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Assuming you found a non-profit, host your infrastructure somewhere that<br>
doesn't cause legal issues and every person that has access to the data<br>
stream signs an NDA it's likely doable.<br>
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Can WMF please confirm that this is the case and it wasn't a boutade? If yes, could you indicate a single point of contact interested parties can negotiate such an arrangement with?<br>
(See also the first unanswered question by Sj at <<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_Toolserver#September_2012" target="_blank">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_Toolserver#September_2012</a>>.)<br>
<br></blockquote></div><div>Generically, <a href="mailto:legal@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">legal@wikimedia.org</a> would be the point of contact for anything like that. </div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">I think there is some historical context here I'm missing, so I'm looking into it, but can't promise an answer particularly quickly.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Luis<br clear="all">
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