My personal view on this John is that abstaining is appropriate in a couple
cases:
- you truly don't have an opinion and trust those who do have opinions to make
the decision. in that case it's really a decision to support the majority view
of the others who are voting.
- you don't particular
On Mar 31, 2012, at 12:33 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> I would advise caution when thinking about other ways to raise funds.
> Chapters certainly should think about it, but given how easily we, as
> a movement, can raise so much money with the annual fundraiser (no
> other charitable movement has th
On Feb 18, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
> Accountabilities, plural? I can understand accountability, the state
> of being accountable to another. But I have no idea what
> accountabilities are. Can you collect them like Pokémon cards?
I want a set of those cards. No, I need a set of thos
Yes thanks, Florence. My view is that agreeing on a community-driven process
(the Funds Dissemination Committee, or Funds Allocation Committee, whatever it
wants to be called) to allocate funds is the easy part. The hard part is
figuring out all the details:
- how many people on this committe
Thanks Ting for posting, Phoebe for jumping in already, and everyone for
questions so far. As the WIkimedia Board member most focused on financial
issues, I thought i should share some personal observations on the fundraising
letter and issues behind it. See my blog post:
http://wikistu.org/2
On Feb 1, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Risker wrote:
> it gives the impression that the current three
> elected members of the board are somehow considered not representative of
> the movement It
> concerns me a lot that the 97% of active Wikimedians who are not chapter
> members seem to not be consider
nt's pursuit of the mission.
-s
On Feb 1, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Benjamin Lees wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Stuart West wrote:
>> The hope was to attract/identify Board candidates who could add a lot of
>> value to the movement but who, for one reason or another, wo
On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Nathan wrote:
> "This is the way things are" is not an effective response to "here's how I
> think things should be."
+1
___
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.o
On Feb 1, 2012, at 7:47 AM, Nathan wrote:
> My question is - if the 38 chapters represent only a small portion of the
> whole of Wikimedia...is it really appropriate for Chapters to continue to
> have a role in filling Board seats?
I think this is a valuable discussion to have, and it ties in n
On Feb 1, 2012, at 4:12 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Last time, the chapters decided to keep the process very confidential
> in order to allow free and frank discussion of the candidates. It was
> felt that it would be good to have confidential discussions, in
> contrast to the public ones that are
That's kind of an American thing I think. Many organizations here have Vice
Presidents, but instead of having a President have someone with the title CEO
or Executive Director instead.
On Jan 31, 2012, at 8:17 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Erik took on the temporary title "VP of Engineering
I think the iBooks Author license agreement allows distribution outside Apple
store, just not sale outside the Apple store. So in some vaguely nefarious was
I suppose it's akin to the NC side of a CC license. Here's the relevant text:
> B. Distribution of your Work. As a condition of this Lice
ee, please email me at stu
wikimedia.org with your resume/CV and your thoughts on how you think
you could contribute. Thanks.
-s
=======
Stuart West
Board Vice-Chair & Treasurer
Wikimedia Foundation
s...@wikimedia.org
___
foundation-
As follow-up, we’ve formed the 2010-2011 Audit Committee. Thanks to Matt
Bisanz, Ad Huikeshoven, Renata Stasaityte, and Michael Snow who have agreed
to join me for another year on the Committee. More details and backgrounds
at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_committee.
-stu
On Fri, Jul
Just a quick follow-up on this thread. On the Wikimedia Foundation's Board
I currently serve as the Chair of the Audit Committee (
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_committee). One of the Audit
Committee's duties is to ensure appropriate review of fraud, abuse, waste,
or other wrongdoing.
kimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_meetings#May_12.2C_2010.
-stu
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Stuart West wrote:
> A few of you have asked for more perspectives from Board members on the
> goings-on at Commons. I'm happy to share some of my personal views on the
> events of the past
Thanks, Greg. This is very useful perspective and great background for
those of us without Commons experience.
-stu
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> I thought it might be useful to here if I shared some of my
> experiences with commons.
>
>
> Like many people I've had t
A few of you have asked for more perspectives from Board members on the
goings-on at Commons. I'm happy to share some of my personal views on the
events of the past few days.
First off, let me thank everyone who has participated in the debate. I've kept
up with many of the email threads, talk p
At a meetup in San Francisco today I was thinking about next January's 10th
Birthday for Wikipedia and recent strategic planning discussions around
participation. What about celebrating Wikipedia Day with an edit drive? We
could aim for some stretch target (e.g. 1 million edits across all project
Just a quick follow-up note to thank everyone who expressed interest in
serving on the Foundation's Audit Committee. I'm pleased to announced the
following membership of the 2009-2010 Audit Committee, which represents a
mix of four community members with financial backgrounds and two San
Francisco-
20 matches
Mail list logo
