[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Request for Comments: Legal Fees Assistance Program

[Tilman Bayer]

Forwarding, as this doesn't yet seem to have made it through from the
Announce list (possibly because of the HTML content; but trying anyway).

The original message can also be read at
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2012-August/000467.html


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From: Geoff Brigham <gbrigham at wikimedia.org>
To: wikimediaannounce-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Cc:
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:35:39 +0200
Subject: Request for Comments: Legal Fees Assistance Program
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Many Wikimedians take on key support roles that help ensure that the
community’s projects run smoothly and effectively. The Wikimedia Foundation
-- under the lead of the Finance Department and the Legal and Community
Advocacy Department -- is proposing the Legal Fees Assistance Program. This
program is intended to help find qualified lawyers or pay for the legal
defense fees of eligible users in specified support
roles<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_Fees_Assistance_Program#Eligibility>.
The assistance would be available in the unlikely event those users were
ever named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of their support
roles on any Wikimedia project. The program would apply to all projects and
languages.

We have started a request for
comment<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request_for_comment/Legal_Fees_Assistance_Program>to
see what the community thinks of this proposed initiative, and we
would
like those who are interested to look at the proposed program
itself<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_Fees_Assistance_Program>and
let us know your thoughts. If you have further questions, we have
prepared an FAQ<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_Fees_Assistance_Program/FAQ>,
and we will be available to discuss via the talk pages.

Many thanks,

Geoff <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Gbrigham>

Geoff Brigham
General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation

Garfield <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Gbyrd>
Garfield Byrd
Chief of Finance and Administration
Wikimedia Foundation



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Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
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