[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation's help to the projects

[Michael Bimmler]

On 12/13/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Soufron is no longer the Chief Legal Officer.  He has no role at this time.
>
Okay. And what about the Legal department and the juriwiki-l? Are they
abandoned too?

> Legal is my responsibility (General Counsel) and will be receiving more
> attention in the future.  My other current job is, shall we say, demanding.
>
This is clear (and probably the cause why the positions "General
Counsel" and "Executive Director" are going to be assigned to two
different people somewhen in the future)
Michael
> -Brad
>
> Michael Bimmler wrote:
> > On 12/13/06, Yann Forget <yann at forget-me.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> 1. Legal counselling.
> >>
> >> Some projects (mainly Commons and Wikisource) need more input about
> >> copyright issues from knowledgeable persons. I have asked twice to
> >> juriwiki-l specific issues for Wikisource without receiving an answer,
> >> even an acknowledgement that my request was received. Another concrete
> >> example: Commons and Wikisource would benefit most from a cross table
> >> about copyright rules, which countries use "most favourable rule apply",
> >> etc.
> >>
> >>
> > I really wonder about the status of the following bodies or positions:
> >
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_department Is / was this ever
> > official? If yes, is it the appropriate point of contact?
> >
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lead_Legal_Coordinator (Soufron) Is
> > this still an active position? If yes, how is it related to the
> > General Counsel? Who is the appropriate contact for project legal
> > issues? Jean-Baptiste Soufron or Brad?
> >
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Juriwiki_mailing_list Is this
> > mailinglist active (i.e. are there discussions going on at the
> > moment)? Should it still be contacted?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> 2. Helping small projects. It seems that some projects have a difficult
> >> start. Indian languages projects are my first examples. I will go to
> >> India in January, and I would like to use this opportunity to recruit
> >> new contributors. The Foundation could help coordinate this kind of
> >> recruitement.
> >>
> >>
> > Isn't this in the domain of Special Projects Committee resp. its
> > 'language' subcommitee?
> > >From http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_projects_subcommittees/New_languages
> >
> > The Wikipedia Foundation Special projects language subcommittee is in
> > charge of (...) supporting and coordinating new projects to optimize
> > their success.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Yann
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