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.
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Did the 60 days start on April 11? That should be clarified.
--John Reaves
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.
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I believe bastique said that it was 60 days from his official post outlining everything which needs to be done. That post has yet to come.
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-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of John Reaves Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:47 AM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Think of the chilllllllllllldren
Did the 60 days start on April 11? That should be clarified.
--John Reaves
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.
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" But hearing the rumor on IRC that the person who is supposed to organize all this doesn't know what PGP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP is made me wonder if anyone even thought about these issues."
This is complete nonsense. Someone repeated a comment I made about a specific type of PGP. I know what PGP is. This is very irresponsible for Daniel to propagate. He should know better--and I am always available to ask questions.
Cary
David Gerard 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.
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Everything is ooooookay now. Thanks Daniel ;)
Cary
Cary Bass wrote:
This is complete nonsense. Someone repeated a comment I made about a specific type of PGP. I know what PGP is. This is very irresponsible for Daniel to propagate. He should know better--and I am always available to ask questions.
Cary
David Gerard 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.
- d.
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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.
On 03/05/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
Fair enough. However, that leaves some fast developer relations work to be done on wikitech-l ...
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