[Foundation-l] Celebrity pictures

[effe iets anders]

Hey Gerard,

That's why I suggested to appoint an officer to do this stuff. Someone
who likes this, and who is able to put the time in it. That shouldn't
have to cost lots of foundation-time, except of the appointment an
reporting and maybe some handshaking if you meet them.

Lodewijk

2006/8/27, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
> Garion96 wrote:
> > On 8/26/06, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I agree this is an instance where chapters are very
> >> useful.  I didn't mean to imply that nothing should be
> >> sent on to the Foundation.  But if the individual
> >> editors take care of the easy ones.  And also gather a
> >> list of the exact contact info of people who requested
> >> to deal with someone official.  Well providing that
> >> list to one the commitees or something is a different
> >> proposition than asking the Foundation to gather free
> >> photos of celebrities for Wikipedia in general terms.
> >>
> >> Birgitte SB
> >>
> >
> >
> > Whether a chapter, the foundation or an officer for obtaining open content
> > material (I do like that idea) writes it doesn't matter yes. As long as it
> > looks official to the persons/companies receiving. But I also wouldn't mind
> > if the foundation itself did it, considering the (possibly legal) mess of
> > fair use images on en.wikipedia. Which is where this whole idea originated.
> >
> > Garion96
> Hoi,
> The WMF does have a lot of work and too few people to do things. When
> the Foundation is to these things as well, when do they have time to do
> their Foundation work?
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
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