[Foundation-l] Accepting airline miles as donations

[James Hare]

Thank you for your input, Florence, but for the sake of keeping this thread
on-topic, would you like to also comment on the Foundation accepting sky
miles as a donation?

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> >> Do we want WMF to be the "Red Cross for information"? Or just the
> >> glorified web-host? It seems to me the community has implicitly
> >> accepted the Red Cross route, because the Foundation has massively
> >> expanded and professionalised (not to mention moved across the
> >> country) without uproarious complaint. The glorified web-host wouldn't
> >> need to do these things.
> >
> > Shouldn't the WMF figure out what it is supposed to be, rather than
> > us? If the foundation is going to be some sort of "red cross for
> > information" then it should be making the same advocacy efforts that
> > the Red Cross does, like making reports on the freedom of information
> > in countries (similar to the red crosses reports on health standards),
> > criticize countries that censor information (the same way the red
> > cross criticizes that violate human rights of their citizens) and such.
>
> This is actually a very good idea. And I am totally sure it will happen
> more and more often, through WMF or through the chapters.
>
> We have not produced such documents, because of lack of resources (noone
> to write them), but chapters are currently working to challenge the
> recent EC proposal of extension of authors rights. We also signed
> various agreements and statements in the past. Latest one is
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Cape_Town_Open_Education_Declaration
> which I signed in the name of the Foundation.
>
> I would support quite largely us pushing advocacy a little bit more than
> what we have been doing in the past... WITHOUT directly getting involved
> in criticizing a country or a political organization. That certainly
> would not be very wise and is simply not what we are trying to do.
>
> However, giving clearly our position with regards to extension of
> authors rights in certain countries totally seem within our mission.
>
> Ant
>
> Ant
>
>
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