On 5/3/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
What can be done with the age restriction plan *not* to make it drive away developers?
http://brightbyte.de/page/Think_of_the_children
That post points out how bad and unclear the wording of the resolution actually is, and that's coming from someone using English as their second language.
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.