[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Request for Comments: Legal Fees Assistance Program

Forwarding, as this doesn't yet seem to have made it through from the Announce list (possibly because of the HTML content; but trying anyway). The original message can also be read at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2012-August/000467… ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Geoff Brigham &lt;gbrigham(a)wikimedia.org&gt; To: wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:35:39 +0200 Subject: Request for Comments: Legal Fees Assistance Program *Note: You may also read this announcement in DE<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_Fe… ES<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_Fe… FR<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_Fe… IT<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_Fe… JA<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request_for_comment/Legal_Fees_Assist… RU<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request_for_comment/Legal_Fees_Assist… * Many Wikimedians take on key support roles that help ensure that the community’s projects run smoothly and effectively. The Wikimedia Foundation -- under the lead of the Finance Department and the Legal and Community Advocacy Department -- is proposing the Legal Fees Assistance Program. This program is intended to help find qualified lawyers or pay for the legal defense fees of eligible users in specified support roles<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal…ty>. The assistance would be available in the unlikely event those users were ever named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of their support roles on any Wikimedia project. The program would apply to all projects and languages. We have started a request for comment<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request_for_comment/Legal_Fees_A… see what the community thinks of this proposed initiative, and we would like those who are interested to look at the proposed program itself<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Lega… let us know your thoughts. If you have further questions, we have prepared an FAQ<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_F…AQ>, and we will be available to discuss via the talk pages. Many thanks, Geoff <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Gbrigham> Geoff Brigham General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation Garfield <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Gbyrd> Garfield Byrd Chief of Finance and Administration Wikimedia Foundation -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB