Hi,
Le Monday 31 May 2004 11:52, Jimmy Wales a écrit :
Anthere wrote:
I'd like to remind you Yann, that everyone on fr; trust you for your PR activities. If you had an urgent need for official support, Jimbo would publicly brought it I think.
I agree with this, even though I also support the creation of local associations where a significant group of people desire it.
The issue of official titles is a complete non-issue though. Titles are cheap and easy to generate -- just tell me what you want to be called, and you can be called that.
Thanks Jimmy. That's solve part of the problem, but not all.
Because speaking in behalf of Wikimedia (internationally or locally) means not only to have the support of the board and the partipants, but to be able to implement a decision. This can have legal or financial implications. Right now I am more concerned with legal implications.
For example, in my district ("département"), primary and high schools already use Wikipedia has a reference for students and teachers. I would like to start a general promotion campaign to all schools in France, Switzerland, etc. I would like to be able to speak to school and university teachers, directors, librarians, etc., in behalf of Wikimedia. The first questions will be "Who do you represent?" and "Do you have a local organisation?"
Practically this also means to print tee-shirts, leaflets, posters, etc.
--Jimbo
Regards, Yann