[Foundation-l] Proposal: Fan History joining the WMF family

Samuel Klein meta.sj at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 04:11:08 UTC 2009


Laura,

Thanks for your work on the proposal.  I hadn't looked at fanhistory in any
detail before, and enjoyed discovering it's lifecycle through your blog.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:51 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I may not have time to respond to your comments in detail, but I think
> it is important to say that I appreciate the way that you are
> approaching this.
>
> Critical analysis of the potential "import" of this project is much
> easier if the project has a well defined mission, and the project
> leaders are only interested in the migration if it is a good fit
> within the WMF mission.
>
>
I agree with John here.  Your approach and proposal are greatly appreciated.
Educational projects aimed at educating others, providing material for
future research, or gathering useful knowledge are certainly ones we should
give consideration to adopting.  The copyright issues is a sticking point,
as geni notes -- I strongly recommend that you look into changing your
license, regardless of the result of this proposal, so that you can better
work with other projects in the future.

SJ



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