[Foundation-l] Notice of the results of the WMF Board of Trustees election

[GerardM]

Hoi,
While you have your periods, consider, when a chapter, which is a legal
entity, indicates its involvement with WMF projects, it creates legal
responsibility for the projects and as a result people, organisations can
sue it. This is not a good idea.

A chapter is an organisation that promotes activities for the people
involved and interested in WMF projects. It also does promote the ideals of
the WMF. But it does not involve itself in the projects themselves. It does
not assume or accept any legal responsibility for whatever happens in WMF
projects.

Given your use of a centipede, shooting in your foot is only painful when
you have a thousand. When you are human and you have only two feet, shooting
in your foot is a bad idea. Not only should a chapter not involve itself in
the running of projects, many chapters cannot even claim that a partiucular
language can be equated with the country, region a chapter is involved in.
In my opinion it is a truly brain dead idea for a chapter to involve itself
officially with WMF projects. If at all it is either the WMF itself or
particular editors that can be considered responsible for what happens on a
WMF project.

Thanks,
      GerardM

On 7/14/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/14/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hoi,
> > For your comprehension:
> > at arm's length: Avoiding a close relationship
> >
> > For the comprehension of others:
> > gibberish: speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or
> > meaningless
> >
> > So what I understand is that you either fail to understand is that there
> > are
> > good reasons why chapters should want to keep their distance from the
> WMF
> > projects or that you disagree but do not say so. Please inform us what
> is
> > correct..
>
>
> There are reasons to avoid legal liability for onwiki action. Period. That
> is
> a good thing to do. Period.
>
> There is no good reason for chapters to keep their distance from WMF
> projects. Period.
>
> To suggest there are good reasons for chapters to keep their distance from
> WMF
> projects is incomprehensible, illogical, impossible in the utmost, and
> totally
> unfathomable in the absolute. Period.
>
> Since you wish to be informed of what is correct (notice you are still
> using
> the royal "we"); let me inform you of something you may not have noticed,
> namely that the chapters almost solely consist of editors *from* the WMF
> projects. Saying that the chapters should stay at arms lenght from the
> WMF projects is like saying that a Centipede should stay an arms length
> from it's legs.
>
>
>
> --
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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