[Foundation-l] Wikinews: IOTM Jan 2006 - Danny O'Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Sun Jan 22 20:18:53 UTC 2006

I think a good idea for easily getting good questions (since the current 
questions are pretty generic), as well as increasing the positive 
interest in Wikinews (since people like the EFF) is to make a post on 
Slashdot in the style of "ask your questions on Slashdot, and a 
selection of the highest moderated quesitons will be picked to 
specifically ask Danny O'Brien". Then you can pick out some good 
questions, ask him, and make another Slashdot post once the entire 
interview has been written up.

I'm going to try to get a story on Slashdot. I would suggest that 
someone protect 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month/January_2006_EFF 
(although I won't link to it). As for the IRC interview, I hope it is 
being set up so that the interviewee can be separated from the rest of 
the people. He should probably be in his own channel, which has 
restricted access.

brian0918

Amgine wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Wikinews will be hosting a second Interview of the Month 
> (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month),  
> 2000 UTC on 23 January 2006, Danny O'Brien 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_O%27Brien) of the Electronic 
> Frontier Foundation 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation) will be 
> interviewed live in IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikinews), and you are 
> invited to attend and be a part of the action.
>
> Danny O'Brien is the "Coordinator of Activism" at the EFF, which he 
> came to from a technology journalism career. He helped found the Open 
> Rights Group, amongst other digital and online rights activisms.
>
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a U.S. ngo, with staff  also in 
> Canada and the United Kingdom, focused on free speech rights in a 
> digital world. Focused on defending those rights as they are related 
> to technology, and educating the press, public, and policymakers about 
> the issues, EFF has taken a number of actions which put the spotlight 
> on the project recently: Sony BMG's CD protection issue, cracking the 
> US government's programme to have laser printers put tracking 
> information on every document they print, and publishing the Legal 
> Guide for Bloggers. They're also in the advocacy and lobby industry, 
> and are closely watching Broadcast Flag legislation in the US capitol 
> which is scheduled for debate on 24 January.
>
> The Wikinews Interview of the Month is a program to give citizen 
> journalists the opportunity to be involved in interviews with news 
> makers. Research and questions are developed by everyone who wishes to 
> take part both before the interview (for this interview, you can get 
> involved at 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month/January_2006_EFF) 
> and during the interview. As the interview progresses, questions may 
> be passed to the moderators who will try to squeeze in as many 
> questions as possible.
>
> Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, and is produced in 
> 19 languages.
>
> Amgine
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