[Licom-l] A pre-event announcement

Sat Mar 28 08:19:26 UTC 2009

I just realized I was ambiguous.  My references to Saturday afternoon
and Sunday were based on time in USA.

-Robert

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've created [1] for coordination.  It provides my draft text,
> slightly tweaked, in a form suitable for either on-wiki posting or
> emailing to a community email list.
>
> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update_committee/Announcements
>
> It also contains a sign-up list to help ensure we don't double post.
> Please go ahead and sign up now for communities and languages you are
> familiar with.  I seeded this with the 20 largest communities,
> representing ~85% of editing, so that we ensure good coverage, but
> feel free add any additional communities you intend to message.
>
> I've also proposed an arbitrary start time of Saturday afternoon to
> allow for any last minute concerns about the message.  Feel free to
> tweak it directly or use the associated talk page.
>
> I'd like to suggest that the first batch of messages focus on
> communities and languages that we collective know, and that we wait
> till Sunday for the ones we are less familiar with.  That way
> communities have the best chance of getting a personal touch from
> someone they know (and who knows them) before we jump into messaging
> communities that are less familiar to us.
>
> -Robert Rohde
>
> P.S. I'm not sure how "shortly" turned into 8 hours, but sorry for the
> delay in getting this set up.
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Shortly I'll create a place on Meta to coordinate this so we avoid
>> multi-posting to any communities.  We can probably just send these
>> things out on a rolling basis if there are no significant objections
>> to the proposed message.
>>
>> -Robert
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> I'm in favor of a message that uses wording like the one Robert
>>> proposed and encourage you to just go ahead and do this. I'll post a
>>> separate note on general readiness for the vote.
>>>
>>> Erik
>>>
>>> 2009/3/27 abi gor <abigorwikimedia at gmail.com>:
>>>> I don't think its a lot of work to place that message in the
>>>> villagepump for the most projects.
>>>>
>>>> If people think it is a good idea I can place it there tonight, I
>>>> think a village pump message is more personal that a global notice.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Huib
>>>>
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