Of course. The travail of being new here: I kept waiting. Silly me: open source is about doing it yourself, in community, not about watching others do it for you. That's TV. louis
On 18 January 2012 17:53, Danese Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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.
