[Wikimedia-l] Distinction between service and content (Re: Monetizing Wikimedia APIs)

2016-01-18 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, Splitting the thread off to avoid hijacking it On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Mitar wrote: > I think this conversation is diverging from the question of the > *service* we should offer to others to licensing of the content. > Licensing does not say anything about the service one

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Engineering] IRC office hour this Thursday: reconnecting with the shared hosting community

2015-11-16 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi Gilles, Thanks for leading this! My reading of your agenda leads me to believe that this is intended as a "problem solving" meeting, as described in User:RobLa-WMF/Meetings#Taxonomy. To quote that article: *Problem-solving* - Discuss a problem that we don’t know how to solve. > "Conversation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

2014-01-16 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:32 AM, David Gerard wrote: > > It is important to note that WMF itself is not in any way neutral on > this issue: adding MPEG4 is explicitly listed as a 2014 goal for the > Multimedia team. > > That is, it has already been determined that this is *going to happen*. > > h