On 9/30/07, Gabe Johnson <gjzilla(a)gmail.com> wrote: You should be aware that, as mentioned in prior discussions, YouTube's terms of service are clearly incompatible with copylefted freely licensed content. By posting copylefted content authored by third parties on youtube you will almost certainly be violating the license of thoses works and will open yourself up to the normal remedies available. Your own content, OTOH, is of course your decision... although I think is unfortunate to see Wikimedia involved folks submitting content to a site with a terms of service which is so unfriendly towards the free dissemination of knowledge. On 9/30/07, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: As it stands Wikimedia doesn't even have passable basic graphic banner ads to promote the fundraiser and you're expecting us to somehow pull out an effective video fundraiser message? I'm all for exploring new promotional methods but it is important to get the basics right. I think it's easy to argue that we're not even close to on-target in terms of basic fundraising skills. As it stands now the vast majority (all but a few percent) of the people who hit out fundraising pages drop out and don't donate. It seems that we don't have the knowledge, skills, motivation, or resources to produce a fundraising page which doesn't scare people away. ... and we don't apparently have the staff resources to setup tracking so we can measure the effectiveness of different messages. With this in mind I think that this out-of-the-blue mention of video fundraising makes me wonder if anyone has clearly established the priorities around here.