[Licom-l] A pre-event announcement

Sun Mar 29 05:37:26 UTC 2009

Myself, Andrew, and MF-Warburg have gotten things started but we could
use some more people willing to reach out to their home communities to
help keep them in the loop:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update_committee/Announcements

Tomorrow I'll also start picking up some of the languages I can't
speak, but if anyone wants to help with that, please do.

-Robert Rohde

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>>>
>>>>
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