While it might have been appropriate for ASF projects such as AOO to join today's SOPA/PIPA protest, I agree that it's too late to coordinate now. The Wikipedia community has been working towards their protest action for more than a week, including a town hall meeting and other consensus-verification processes. Even so, there is today an interview with a community member who doesn't like the action they've taken. In short, I just don't think we have time to socialize such an action on the part of even the AOO project before the protest would be "over".
D On Jan 18, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lo...@apache.org> wrote: > All, > Proposal: > > 1. Let's vote on supporting those who have protested the proposed US > bills supposed to combat piracy but actually doing a lot more than > that and none of it good. These two proposals: SOPA and PIPA. > Wikipedia has a fair account: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act > > 2. I would propose we post on the Apache OpenOffice podling site this > language, for remainder of the day, to be taken down at the onset of > 19 January 2012 GMT. > > > ** The Apache OpenOffice Podling members support those who have > darkened their Web sites as a unified gesture to protect the freedoms > of the Internet and stop misguided legislation that would threaten > them. ** > > > I would propose further that we have the text white on a black banner > at the top of every podling page. > > Please vote as soon as you can, as obviously time is of the essence. > > thanks > louis > > PS I'm cc'ing the ASF marketing and publicity list. Quite possible > that Apache will say no, if so, that's fine. Better we act as a body > together. But I would also suggest that ASF take the lead here and > issue a statement, if they have not done so already.
