Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-06 Thread Michael Snow
On 8/6/2011 4:00 PM, Florence Devouard wrote: > On 8/6/11 1:36 AM, Michael Snow wrote: >> On 8/5/2011 4:26 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: >>> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Michael Snow >>> wrote: .. Honestly, I must say that it is a colossal disappointment to find that with all the post

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-06 Thread Florence Devouard
On 8/6/11 1:36 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > On 8/5/2011 4:26 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Michael Snow wrote: >>> .. Honestly, I must say that it >>> is a colossal disappointment to find that with all the posts I've seen >>> both here and on internal-l, nobody has ye

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-06 Thread Birgitte_sb
On Aug 6, 2011, at 3:14 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Hello MZM, thanks for taking a start at new pages to illustrate the > discussion on Meta. > > MZMcBride writes: > . > > >> Anyone who thinks that this particular issue >> is outside of this list's scope is insane. Using internal-l as a sub

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-06 Thread Birgitte_sb
On Aug 6, 2011, at 2:41 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Hello Birgitte, > > Thank you for these comments and edits/suggestions. [all: please also > post suggestions on Meta. most people are not subscribed to this > list.] > > This Board letter was published on short notice. Once it was clear >

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-06 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi, I've got an awkward feeling toward this whole thread. I'll try to explain why. For years, every single discussion has been WMF versus the chapters. few years ago it kinda made sense as we had so different issues and we were trying to codify the relationship between our organizations through a

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-06 Thread Chris Keating
The more I read the Board's letter the more difficult I find it to interpret. There's one reading on which it says only a few (albeit important) things that aren't already in the 2011 Fundraising Agreements. There is another reading in which it says that actually no chapters will be participating i

Re: [Foundation-l] Board of Trustees activity report - May-June 2011

2011-08-06 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> Meta link: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_Report,_May-June_2011 > > -- phoebe Thanks for the link, Phoebe. Since none of the meta pages linked to this page, I created http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_Reports which I hope will be updated on a regular basis by adding new reports. C

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-06 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello MZM, thanks for taking a start at new pages to illustrate the discussion on Meta. MZMcBride writes: > I fail to see how violating the community's principles of transparency and > accountability by keeping everything on a non-public list is any better. I > just hope nobody's discussing anyt

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-06 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello Birgitte, Thank you for these comments and edits/suggestions. [all: please also post suggestions on Meta. most people are not subscribed to this list.] This Board letter was published on short notice. Once it was clear that the issue should be raised and discussed this year, we wanted to