Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beyond the Board (was: WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google)

Just as a matter of record: While I did contribute comments to the concept of the council, and am in general very much in favour of such council, I also made the comment that I don't think the council in its current shape addresses the real problems at all - because it has one responsibility

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning

+1 to the idea of developing a movement strategic plan, we can than judge how well different movement partners including the WMF are aligned with movements goals -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beyond the Board (was: WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google)

Thank you Milos for pointing here what seems to me the most fundamental flaw of our current organisation. The WMF as organisation was created to bring stability and assure that the daily business is done: keep the platform online, deal with legal cases and keep a positive financial balance. This

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning

On Jan 12, 2016 16:51, "Yaroslav M. Blanter" wrote: > > On 2016-01-12 04:21, Pete Forsyth wrote: >> >> All: >> >> >> >> And beyond this video -- what do those who participated in the last round >> (or those who have observed it) think the important lessons are? How should >> we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Introducing Jaime Villagomez as our Chief Financial Officer

2016-01-12 9:12 GMT+01:00 Pine W : > Pardon the skepticism, but as you may have heard, it seems that some > changes are need in WMF screening procedures, and this skepticism is > understandably affecting other new requisitions. > > In any case, welcome to the hurricane known

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Introducing Jaime Villagomez as our Chief Financial Officer

Welcome Jaime!! K. On Tuesday, 12 January 2016, Cristian Consonni wrote: > 2016-01-12 9:12 GMT+01:00 Pine W >: > > Pardon the skepticism, but as you may have heard, it seems that some > > changes are need in WMF screening procedures,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Introducing Jaime Villagomez as our Chief Financial Officer

On 11 January 2016 at 20:28, Lila Tretikov wrote: > > Most recently, Jaime served as CFO at two startups: AnyCOMM, a smart cities > startup, Looks like literal DRMed light-bulbs. > and Karum Group, which focused on extending credit services to > underserved, unbanked

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Introducing Jaime Villagomez as our Chief Financial Officer

Hi Jamie, Pardon the skepticism, but as you may have heard, it seems that some changes are need in WMF screening procedures, and this skepticism is understandably affecting other new requisitions. In any case, welcome to the hurricane known as the Wikimedia movement (: I look forward to hearing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy consultation - translation help?

Correction made on page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Strategy/Communities as follows: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=2016_Strategy%2FCommunities=revision=15232863=15227414 FYI, for the any translation of that page completed already. K. On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 5:11 PM,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Support of Community

> > I hope this helps. :) > > Hi Damon - not really, it doesn't. If there is anything that you feel you can and should say publically (bearing in mind whatever confidentiality you have agreed to respect, or feel you should respect ) - then please say it. If there isn't - then please don't hint

Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Support of Community

On 01/12/2016 06:36 PM, Damon Sicore wrote: > These are links to public posts containing cryptographic hash values > generated from documents that I wrote on or before the dates of the > posts. By posting these hash values publicly, I’m proving to the > world that I said something specific at a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:25 PM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > > Also agree. > > I'd like to see strategic plan for the movement done first, and then > one undertaken for the Foundation when the 'movement's plan is > finished. > > ​That has long been one of my take-aways from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning

'On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Anna Stillwell wrote: > I like the idea of a strategic plan for the movement and one for the > Foundation. > I think that is a good idea. Also agree. I'd like to see strategic plan for the movement done first, and then one undertaken

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Introducing Jaime Villagomez as our Chief Financial Officer

Welcome, Jaime! -Hasive WMBD On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou < ktsouroupi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Welcome Jaime!! > > K. > > On Tuesday, 12 January 2016, Cristian Consonni > wrote: > > > 2016-01-12 9:12 GMT+01:00 Pine W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning

I like the idea of a strategic plan for the movement and one for the Foundation. I think that is a good idea. /a On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > Thank you for the reflections, Yaroslav, Specific replies inline below. > > Pine, thank you for the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning

Thank you for the reflections, Yaroslav, Specific replies inline below. Pine, thank you for the invitation; actually, this video was done in preparation for my panel session at the Wikipedia 15 celebration, which will also be live-streamed later in the day. Eugene will be one of my panelists, and

[Wikimedia-l] Strategy consultation - translation help?

Hello, all. :) As I know many of you are aware, the strategic planning consultation pages went up on Meta yesterday at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Strategy/Community_consultation. The actual consultation should launch on January 18th. Right now, we are seeking translations. I've

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning

On 2016-01-12 04:21, Pete Forsyth wrote: All: And beyond this video -- what do those who participated in the last round (or those who have observed it) think the important lessons are? How should we be moving foward? -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] I did not watch the video, but I did

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy consultation - translation help?

I thank you! :D I used the "notify translators" option on Meta, but wasn't quite sure where it sent notifications to. Maggie On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Vira Motorko wrote: > I dare to send this to translators-l :) > ​ > > > > *2016-01-12 17:11 GMT+02:00 Maggie

Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Support of Community

(perhaps it would be nice to stop wasting everyone's time with this.) A. On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Nathan wrote: > I've written a guess on what Damon is hinting at. I will reveal this guess > at some later date, but for now here is the hash value: > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Support of Community

On 13/01/16 04:36, Damon Sicore wrote: > Hi Doma, > > These are links to public posts containing cryptographic hash > values generated from documents that I wrote on or before the dates > of the posts. By posting these hash values publicly, I’m proving > to the world that I said something

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beyond the Board (was: WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google)

Milos, I find a lot in your email to agree with. The Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, in my understanding, is not the top governance body of the Wikimedia movement. It sometimes stands in for that, because we don't have anything better - but its composition and its legal obligations suggest

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beyond the Board (was: WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google)

Denny, thanks for supporting this issue moving on. Before few remarks I would respond inline, I want to say that the *draft* of the idea to make community assembly have been published by Pharos: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Council_Compact I want to give a small background

Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Support of Community

Damon, for those who are not native in gibberish, care to translate? Cheers, Doma On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Damon Sicore wrote: > To All, > > Just to mark this moment, or maybe remind those who paid attention when I > published these, some long before I vanished in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy consultation - translation help?

I dare to send this to translators-l :) ​ *2016-01-12 17:11 GMT+02:00 Maggie Dennis >:* > Hello, all. :) > As I know many of you are aware, the strategic planning consultation pages > went up on Meta yesterday at >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Support of Community

Hi Doma, These are links to public posts containing cryptographic hash values generated from documents that I wrote on or before the dates of the posts. By posting these hash values publicly, I’m proving to the world that I said something specific at a specific time. The world does not know