[Foundation-l] Concern for the safety of Wikimedians at Wikimania in Alex...

Wed Mar 5 18:37:15 UTC 2008

Yes, lets be thinking about how to spin the deaths of our conference  
goers as a "positive". I'm sure their families will be happy to hear  
that, especially if the foundation acted negligently in causing that  
death. That's something it absolutely should be worried about.

-Dan
On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:

> Andrew Whitworth wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Whitworth wrote:
>>>
>>>> A single murder, or a single rape, or a single instance of any
>>>> other violent crime would have a massive chilling effect on
>>>> Wikimania, and possibly all of Wikimedia. We should never run
>>>> this risk, even if that means we have to abandon Wikimania
>>>> entirely.
>>>
>>> I think you are being ridiculous.  A single murder at Wikimania in
>>> Boston or Frankfurt wouldn't have this all-chilling effect, and
>>> neither will a single murder in Alexandria.
>>>
>> You're saying that a murder of a prominent wikimedian at a wikimania
>> wouldn't have significant negative consequences. I may not be
>> completely accurate here, but I doubt this possibility is
>> "rediculous".
> The negative consequences of having one of our own martyred would not
> turn people against us; it could certainly be spun into a positive.   
> Ifg
> one of our people were the killer that would be a different matter.
> Generally, however, I'm prepared to relegate either scenario to the  
> far
> reaches of imagination.
>
> Ec
>
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