I can't see any comments elsewhere here, so I thought I'd point you to these:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-March/028404.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BN#User:Dannyisme
Unrelated, I understand.
Guy (JzG)
From: Guy.Chapman@spamcop.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Brad and Danny Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:15:04 +0000
I can't see any comments elsewhere here, so I thought I'd point you to these:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-March/028404.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BN#User:Dannyisme
Unrelated, I understand.
Guy (JzG)
Yeah, seen both of those. That sucks. Slightly more importantly, who steps in as replacements? Does this not leave Jimbo alone at WP:OFFICE? And will we need a new lawyer? Presumably.
Moreschi
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On 22/03/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Yeah, seen both of those. That sucks. Slightly more importantly, who steps in as replacements? Does this not leave Jimbo alone at WP:OFFICE? And will we need a new lawyer? Presumably.
Yeah. Brad's finishing things up in an orderly manner, which will one presumes include steps toward a successor.
- d.
On 3/23/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Does this not leave Jimbo alone at WP:OFFICE?
WP:OFFICE is essentially a mechanism for Jimbo or Brad to proxy important actions through someone working in the office when for whatever reason they can't perform the action themselves (the classic scenario is when one of them are without internet access, for example).
So anyone in the office can act as the proxy, although it was always Danny who did it because he was good at it. There are still staff in the office who can take office actions:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Current_staff
Christiano Moreschi wrote:
From: Guy.Chapman@spamcop.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Brad and Danny Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:15:04 +0000
I can't see any comments elsewhere here, so I thought I'd point you to these:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-March/028404.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BN#User:Dannyisme
Unrelated, I understand.
Guy (JzG)
Yeah, seen both of those. That sucks. Slightly more importantly, who steps in as replacements? Does this not leave Jimbo alone at WP:OFFICE? And will we need a new lawyer? Presumably.
Moreschi
We decided to hire Bastique a few days ago as a volunteer coordinator. Bastique will be able to help on such matters. So, not an issue.
On the legal side, I would like to clarify that we are not left alone. We have a network of lawyers helping us. However, we may indeed not have a GC for a while, but we'll probably have soon a legal coordinator. Whether we have a coordinator or not, this will be one of my priority task to find a new lawyer in Florida, in office or not.
Our legal needs go far beyond WP:Office right now :-) For example, most of our contracts or agreements are handled by Lin, a florida lawyer. Trademarks issues are handled in good part by Hugot, a french lawyer. Thorsten, a german lawyer is helping a lot on various issues, such as legal threats in Germany.
Within areas where we need more help are considerations around intellectual property rights, internet law, press law, and international labour law. If you know some wikipedians willing to help on such matters, or lawyers willing to help us pro-bono, please contact me.
anthere
On 3/22/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Within areas where we need more help are considerations around intellectual property rights, internet law, press law, and international labour law. If you know some wikipedians willing to help on such matters, or lawyers willing to help us pro-bono, please contact me.
Before the Foundation goes ahead and starts its own law firm, maybe WP needs an editor-in-chief first. Jimbo of course would be the natural choice.
-Stevertigo
On 3/23/07, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/22/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Within areas where we need more help are considerations around intellectual property rights, internet law, press law, and international labour law. If you know some wikipedians willing to help on such matters, or lawyers willing to help us pro-bono, please contact me.
Before the Foundation goes ahead and starts its own law firm, maybe WP needs an editor-in-chief first. Jimbo of course would be the natural choice.
-Stevertigo
We appear to be getting by without one. We have a reasonable number of very skilled editors across our community.
A lot of the lower level legal stuff (is this image a copyvio?) tends to be delt with by whoever was on IRC at the time.
On 3/22/07, Guy.Chapman@spamcop.net Guy.Chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
I can't see any comments elsewhere here, so I thought I'd point you to these:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-March/028404.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BN#User:Dannyisme
Unrelated, I understand.
Guy (JzG)
Flo said, Feb 3 21:47:48
"This will enable Brad to focus on developing the role of General Counsel, and addressing a backlog of complex legal questions the Foundation faces moving forward.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-February/027478.html
Six weeks later Brad jumps ship.
Nobs01