At 22:20 +0000 24/12/05, Andrew Walker wrote:
On 12/24/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
I don't think it is sensible for chapters to be directly involved in publishing Wikireaders. This is a subtle point, but chapters may in some cases be involved in trademark licensing issues (the Germans are, for example) related to publishing, but this is a far cry from doing publishing ourselves, either as a chapter or as the foundation.
Mmm. Even the de: DVDs are published by an outside commercial company, who quite sensibly set up a structure so the usual de: volunteer editors could do the work they needed while clearly also improving the encyclopedia.
Jimbo, has anyone sniffed around en: with a plan to do a DVD, in the wake of the moderate success of the de: DVDs?
I don't think publishing (anything) needs to be one of our main objects, but it would be foolish to prevent ourselves from doing so. It is very important to avoid having to change the MoA after we incorporate.
Andreww
Which is why very wide open objects, which are succinct, are the best.