[Foundation-l] Concern for the safety of Wikimedians at Wikimania in Alex...

[George Herbert]

Dan, this is tasteless.  We still don't have any solid info or analysis that
there's a heightened risk to be afraid of.

-george

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, lets be thinking about how to spin the deaths of our conference
> goers as a "positive". I'm sure their families will be happy to hear
> that, especially if the foundation acted negligently in causing that
> death. That's something it absolutely should be worried about.
>
> -Dan
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
> > Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> A single murder, or a single rape, or a single instance of any
> >>>> other violent crime would have a massive chilling effect on
> >>>> Wikimania, and possibly all of Wikimedia. We should never run
> >>>> this risk, even if that means we have to abandon Wikimania
> >>>> entirely.
> >>>
> >>> I think you are being ridiculous.  A single murder at Wikimania in
> >>> Boston or Frankfurt wouldn't have this all-chilling effect, and
> >>> neither will a single murder in Alexandria.
> >>>
> >> You're saying that a murder of a prominent wikimedian at a wikimania
> >> wouldn't have significant negative consequences. I may not be
> >> completely accurate here, but I doubt this possibility is
> >> "rediculous".
> > The negative consequences of having one of our own martyred would not
> > turn people against us; it could certainly be spun into a positive.
> > Ifg
> > one of our people were the killer that would be a different matter.
> > Generally, however, I'm prepared to relegate either scenario to the
> > far
> > reaches of imagination.
> >
> > Ec
> >
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-george william herbert
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