is much has happened this
quickly. If we can improve the functioning of the BoT for what is, in
terms of our budget and reserves, a minor amount of money, how can we
justify NOT doing so?
Kevin Gorman
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:18 PM, geni wrote:
> On 10 May 2016 at 15:35, The Cunctator
soon as possible, or
we face a literally existential threat to WMF's survival.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 9:47 AM, James Heilman wrote:
> Denny I never stated that I "was informed at a later point that [my] duty
> as a trustee is towards the WMF". I have
of the rest of the board to release it. Neither does James - he could
release it this second if he decided to, but values privacy enough that
instead of doing so he's asking Jimmy to follow through with his promise of
radical transparency.
Kevin Gorman
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:11 AM,
ible reasons for
removing James in the first place.
Kevin Gorman
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote:
> Manipulative behavior thrives in an environment where a person can say
> different things to different audiences, and can speak freely with the
> expectation the
up for
them.
*Unfortunately, I'm going to have to second this pretty loudly.
---
Kevin Gorman
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:48 PM, David Emrany wrote:
> Oliver
>
> I have also been in the movement for over a decade, and I am sick of
> people on all sides distorting facts,
estion to the list.
I'm pretty severely disappointed that the board of the largest single free
knowledge organization in the world is engaging in more vicious personal
attacks than the boards I've seen that consisted of college students, and,
equally, have been operating with less transp
e the same values of transparency that we have get
slammed for.
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Kevin Gorman
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <
nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Craig, I believe it is all free (not purchased), per
> https://www.google.com/intl/en/nonprofits/products/#apps#tab5 (&
shines more light on a situation involving the removal of a
community 'selected' trustee, something that those involved should be as
transparent as possible about.
Kevin Gorman
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Dear Jimmy,
>
> Thank you for the cla
intern near. It seems more and more like
instead of a shining light, a black sheet is being draped over WMF's doings.
Kevin Gorman
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
> I think some people aren't realizing the difference between the leaked
> presentation (wh
t. That would be true if he
was a community ELECTED board member removed for cause. He wasn't, so the
relevant provision doesn't apply, and he's eligible to run again as soon as
there are faux-elections again.
Kevin Gorman
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:26 AM, James Heilman wrote:
other trustees, but it's not a good situation either.
Removing a community selected trustee who was acting as an exemplar
*because* he was acting as an exemplar is not a good thing. One of the
first solid steps towards rebuilding community trust would be reinstating
James.
Kevin Gorman
next
three board motions that passes should be appointing James Heilman as
trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. His removal wasn't a surprise to him,
he knew it was coming - but he also knew he was acting in the interests of
the Wikimedia Foundation.
And that's the exact kin
iting Wikipedia about
subjects you're interested in... it's just really hard to see you
successful in a fiduciary role, and my doubts here are magnified by other
ongoing situations.
Kevin Gorman
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Ben Creasy wrote:
> Arnnon Geshuri writes:
>
ise $70m+ a year belongs far more to
the movement than to the Foundation, and if they do start to diverge
further, that's going to put WMF in a tough situation. I know one of the
risks in the strat document this year is decreased revenue from
fundraising... part of me is seriously starting to wo
presumption, and it's hard to think of a set of facts that would
serve to rebut it more effectively.
Kevin Gorman
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Michael Peel wrote:
> RIP AGF.
>
> (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Assume_good_faith <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wi
lues of the
Wikimedia movement, and even more problematic at a time when cultural
matchup between the Board and everyone else is in greater doubt than at any
other time in the history of Wikimedia.
Resign. Please.
Kevin Gorman
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Nathan wrote:
> It's
isagree with what
the board is up to and have questions about the scope of your obligations
and abilities.
Kevin Gorman
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:57 PM, James Heilman wrote:
> Following the recent statements by JW on his talk page I am planning to
> publish my email to the board
@NYB: at least one major pension fund has ongoing litigation related to the
nonsolicit, so I agree with you Arnnon is unlikely to be able to comment
publicly.
Best,
KG
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Newyorkbrad wrote:
> It would be great if we could have Arrnon's input and perspective on
> th
is not "This is a
groundless lawsuit, but it'll cost less to settle it than to make it go
away" territory - even for the companies involved, as large as they are.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote:
> Anders, thank you for your thoughtful mes
graph a bit more credence than I would a paragraph from an average
unsettled lawsuit. I'm sure that Arnnon is personally skilled, I just
really don't feel that his behavior as described in the settled class
action/documents related to it/the general news media is in line with the
values of
gal and which exposed his former employers to not
insignificant liability, brings forth significant doubt as to whether or
not he can reasonably be trusted to carry out his fiduciary duties as a
trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Kevin Gorman
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 5:27 AM, Andreas Kolbe
Billing -
I hope some of my earlier contributions were, well, contributions, since I
do have fairly extensive training in the governance requirements of
CA-based non-profits - which certainly aren't Florida-based nonprofits, but
definitely share some similarities. One of the things that has conce
Philippe -
Well - one of the things is - from all public indication from the BoT - it
doesn't appear that it's their current inclination to do something like
commission an outside review of the situation by a consultancy familiar
with Florida NPO governance. I definitely don't want to pronounce e
est
interests of the Wikimedia movement.
Best,
KG
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Philippe Beaudette
wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> I disagree with nothing you’ve said here. What I disagreed with was the
> characterization that “certainly” something untoward had taken place.
>
> pb
>
>
Philippe -
I totally agree with you that none of my experiences with WMF suggest that
such a thing is likely to happen. Organizations and people change over
time, though - similarly, this is the first time a sitting trustee has been
dismissed. Given the unusuality of the situation, in my opinion
Thank you for coming forward, Ben and Asaf.
I'd been debating whether or not to gather more details about the handling
of this event, or for just trying to make sure that procedures went more
smoothly in case any further trustee was removed, but this calls for a
direct question: were documents int
Hi all -
Just to be clear, none of my previous posts were meant to suggest that the
sky was falling - just that from the information that has been made public
and am aware of, choosing to remove James from the board certainly wasn't
legally necessary, and that there's a good chance it wasn't in th
Hi all -
What concerns me as much as anything about James' removal is his final
statement - "I have always acted in what I believe are the best interests
of the
movement and the WMF." James has been active in the movement for a long
time in a variety of roles, and we have no reason to believe tha
Patricio -
I understand that the final decision likely wasn't predecided going in to
the meeting, however, communications responses should have been prepared
for all likely outcomes, including a prepared statement to disseminate
immediately following the removal from the board of Jame Heilman. Ev
says this was a removal "for cause", and that he
> expects the whole Board will provide a further statement.
>
> -Robert Rohde
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Kevin Gorman > wrote:
>
> > As far as I can tell, no one alleges Doc James did anything wrong -
As far as I can tell, no one alleges Doc James did anything wrong - if
there were serious allegations of wrongdoing then, for one thing, I have
trouble seeing Dariusz as having supported James staying on the board. The
board *can* remove members for any reason, but if you're removing one
member el
Hi Adam -
Thanks for the email - and the idea. Something like this had been floating
around in the back of my head for some time, but I hadn't acted on it yet.
I'm in the middle of a desert for a few more days, but have bookmarked this
to help contribute to when I return. (Unfortunately this is
ull, tenured professor of
management at Poland's top b-school, and in the Financial Times top 50
b-schools worldwide.
With an unprecedented decision like the removal of Doc James - and that
removal opposed by 2 of the 3 commuity elected trustees - I really really
hope that there's something n
Hi all -
I have to start this email with a pair of disclaimers: I'm both not a
lawyer, and I've never been on the board of an organization headquartered
in Florida. However, I have been on multiple California-based boards - none
that had nearly the revenue of WMF, but some whose assets did run in
I really, really hope that, as fast as one can be written, a resolution
explaining more fully the circumstances of James' departure from the board
is written and passed. If there are legal reasons that mean that his
departure cannot be more fully explained, that itself needs to be noted -
and I ho
I really really hope that the full and transparent text of the resolution
is published as soon as is reasonably possible. James has the trust of a
colossal number of movement members, and seeing him suddenly removed short
of allegations of financial malfeasance or something to that effect is
incre
t and dismiss board members at its will, but I
would hope that such power would be exercised with extreme discretion,
especially with regards to a community member generally as well-respected
and with as solid judgement as Dr. James has.
---
Kevin Gorman
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:43 PM, James He
rned myself in the past year, health has to
come first. I wish you the best of luck, and hope our paths cross
again.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Steven Zhang wrote:
> Philippe,
>
> I feel honoured to have known you these last few years. I will sorely miss
&g
Congratulations to all involved, this is quite an auspicious start to a
project with a really remarkable amount of promise.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Cornelius Kibelka
wrote:
> Looks really nice. Could you send an update, when the files are uploaded?
> And
James, I think you may have missed the part of my message about "and are
willing to work with us to address concerns we may have about their
existing services" :)
In any case, given that the IA in general is way more eager to test the
boundaries of copyright law and given that they (through Brewst
across all projects, had.)
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Andrew Gray
wrote:
> On 4 July 2014 01:00, James Salsman wrote:
> >> I don't think it's a donation if you're getting something (a survey)
> in return.
> >
> > Ho
e direct aim of
improving the quality of our content in areas that are currently lacking.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:22 AM, edward wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Lila Tretikov wrote:
>
>> >>Hi all,
>>> >>
>>> >>As I
of the
PR industry playing by our current rules.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Pine W wrote:
> I appreciate this, WWB, especially after the grilling I gave you about
> proposed edits to the Hedge fund article! The fact that you and your
> clients are persistent, willi
that
we've ever been presented with.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:35 AM, William Beutler
wrote:
> Hi, everybody. Longtime lurker, first time writing to the list—the first in
> a few years at least.
>
> You may have seen some news coverage today about an i
e
that attended, but doubt it was that hugely significant. I'm not sure where
you would get the idea that a high proportion of registered attendees were
WMF or chapter employees, let alone why you would think they handled most
of the conference prep.
-
Kevin Gorman
-sent from my mobile
Ktr: Unfortunately, just because you talk to a journalist for half an hour
doesn't mean it's not still a trap. Luckily, this is a relatively easy way
to learn that lesson.
Isarra: whoa, I can't believe I guessed who the other contributor present
was. Kudos on your response.
Bes
y =p Given the number of connections
that were made and future events that were generated, I suspect that, yes,
the conference was absolutely worth the money spent on it, although we
won't know that with surety until some of the planted collaborations have
an opportunity to actually be carried out.
advocacy is the only thing that comes to
mind.) If anyone reading this who has a cool idea that can be facilitated
by a PEG grant and advance the Wikimedia mission, Please come visit us :)
We approve most grants that we deal with, and work hard with applicants to
get grants in to approvable sta
of the WMF and
several respected Wikimedians have said things may be better if you back
off a bit, it would probably good to extend us the trust necessary to give
you a map of the field of landmines you've jumped in to.
---
Kevin Gorman
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Wil Sinclair wrote:
>
much better if you had a map before continuing.
----
Kevin Gorman
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Wil Sinclair wrote:
> You *can't* be serious. Now I'm *really* starting to get the idea that
> you guys just want to shut me up. And you're using the fact that I'm
>
accurately when necessary as a priority, but certainly not the whole plan.
(I can't speak for WMF, but I'd be pretty surprised if they intended their
whole plan to focus on agility.)
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:45 AM, rupert THURNER
wrote:
> Am 28.05.2
directorship of an organization undergoing such rapid growth and
change.
Best wishes,
Kevin Gorman
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Nikolas Becker wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Pavel Richter has been Wikimedia Deutschland’s Executive Director since
> 2009. Over the course of the past five
s, charitably, an easy to
misinterpret statement, and then refuse to clarify the intent of your
statement on a project you're a sysop on.
Kevin Gorman
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Russavia wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> Let me know when you have recovered from the concussion you have
nd there is no evidence that this was obtained by
the uploader. So on that basis, and that basis alone, it's a firm delete."
-
Kevin Gorman
(Since I cut/pasted Russavia's comment directly, one of the links to
Youtube he posted may attach to this email, and I don't current
switch appropriately.) The first two things which could be conceived as
insults (I suppose) are first and foremost true, and secondarily I'm sure
that Russavia can deal having it suggested that he might, sometimes, be
kind of snarky.
Kevin Gorman
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Pierre-
f what any page or feature might contain."
Best,
Kevin Gorman
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Controversial_content
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Wil Sinclair wrote:
> I've never heard "Principle of Least Astonishment" used this way. I've
ll love to hear the reasonable articulation that
this wasn't a violation of POLA that you keep seeming to suggest exists.
Kevin Gorman
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:49 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 13 May 2014 20:47, Nathan wrote:
>
> > I think David was reacting to your bold asserti
ngauges on the frontpage of a
project that serves projects in 287 different languages.
Kevin Gorman
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:14 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 13 May 2014 05:04, Kevin Gorman wrote:
>
> > No, Russavia: I'm not suggesting that Commons' policies should mirro
at
Fuzheado's and Eddie's ignored comments would still be, well, ignored,
rather than there now being a rather active discussion on that page.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Yann Forget wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am puzzled than you launch such a Wikimedia-wide
resolutions, although my deletion nominations were pretty consistently
upheld, at least one commons admin suggested in seriousness that a more
appropriate resolution to the situation would simply be indeffing me from
the project rather than conforming to the WMF Board's resolutions about
media whic
reasonable oversight.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
Wikipedian-in-Residence
UC Berkeley
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> I didn't think you were using "oversight" in the MediaWiki jargon sense.
> But I do think the concept of oversight -- as distinct
*contradictory meanings, not ideas - I just woke up from a nap and am
typing like a sleepy person.
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Kevin Gorman wrote:
> Heh, I probably shouldn't have chosen a word with two more or less
> contradictory ideas that also refers to a mediawiki userrigh
t we
do to especially nasty content instead of revdel. (I would consider any
process that gets large graphics on to prominent pages on the projects with
so few checks on it as lacking sufficient oversight.)
-----
Kevin Gorman
Wikipedian-in-Residence
UC Berkeley
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Pe
ear future if no one beats me to it -
there's something seriously weird about the fact that a project that all
other projects depend on has the media it displays on it's front page
selected by pretty much one person with no oversight.
Kevin Gorman
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Dav
tionally
sought the article out - rather than, say, going to Commons to look up an
image of a horse and being confronted with a freezeframe of a stack of
bodies from a video your browser cannot play with context provided only in
languages you do not speak.
Kevin Gorman
Wikipedian-in-Residence
say, going to Commons to look up an image of a horse and being confronted
with a freezeframe of a stack of bodies from a video your browser cannot
play with context provided only in languages you do not speak.
-
Kevin Gorman
Wikipedian-in-Residence
American Cultures Program
UC Berkeley
On Fri, May 9,
;s mainpage talk so that
interested commonites who desire to comment can do so here or there.
--
Kevin Gorman
Wikipedian-in-Residence
American Cultures Program
UC Berkeley
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:15 PM, K. Peachey wrote:
> Have you discussed this on commons, or just trying to bypass them?
&g
s's frontpage and see a stack of corpses?
Can anyone articulate a valid reason why the freezeframe from the video
posted on the frontpage was just about the most graphic still possible from
the video?
-
Kevin Gorman
Wikipedian-in-Residence
American Cultures Program
UC Berk
gree of overlap
between this and the WMF's program evaluation pages (although I do see an
active point in having both sets of pages.)
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Fæ wrote:
> Thanks Chris.
>
> Interesting you chose to link to my unfinished peer review with
th PEG for
funding or anything like that.
Sorry for only commenting on one aspect, I'm still working out the others
in my head.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Lodewijk wrote:
> Just also wanted to share a more moderate sound here: I think this is, even
> while not pe
he less likely future posts of yours that may have really solid
points in them are to be taken seriously.
Kevin Gorman
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:13 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>
> http://stopthecap.com/2014/01/30/anti-community-broadband-bill-introduced-in-kansas-legislating-incumbe
even if we don't currently use them heavily, I think there are a
lot of opportunities there :)
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:27 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 15 April 2014 20:50, Erik Moeller wrote:
>
> > I'd be interested in hearing broader commun
somehow thought that the snippet of my paid editing post you quoted
indicated '''in context''' that I support unethical practices on the
part of WiR's, please let me know, so I can clarify the wording so no
one else encounters the same confusion.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
O
-Residence is
that people have been comfortable running the story without a bunch of
caveats to explain Belfer. There's also Arild Vågen's previous
position at SLU, which is why most places are going with "first US
university" rather than "first university."
Best,
Congratulations Frank -
I had been getting a bit worried about the ED search for the WEF, and
my faith in the organization's future success is significantly
increased by your selection for the position.
Best wishes,
Kevin Gorman
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Jami Mathewson
wrote:
>
wedes
who speak Finnish,) so although the fundraising banner probably primarily
attracted donations from people in Finland, it likely attracted plenty of
donations from other countries as well.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Charles Gregory wrote:
> In Australia, we (W
I suspect that the Finnish Police would consider whoever in charge of
wikifi-ad...@list.wikimedia.org the webmaster; few people outside of our
world understand how Wikipedia works. I second forwarding them on to the
Foundation.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Craig Franklin
er of fi.wikipedia.org are unsatisfactory.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/1889/18890039001#L17P16b
>
> Nemo
>
>
> ___
> Wikimedia-l
than most
people would be.
----
Kevin Gorman
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> As an apparent "Wikimedia insider"; I think that if the allegations are
> substantiated they need to be addressed. I don't mean to run interference
> on that. I mean to try
arrangement with another major research university, and it's been
absolutely invaluable - there are things I couldn't possibly write about
without access to paywalled journals.
Kevin Gorman
-- Forwarded message --
From: Proffitt,Merrilee
Date: Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:51 A
iolate the
Wikimedia movement's principles?' and not 'does this project violate the
law in any country in the world?'
Kevin Gorman
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:50 AM, rupert THURNER
wrote:
> hi,
>
> most people know some advantage of wikipedia zero and ever
ing that Anasuya is hoping
that they would be able to achieve affcom recognition in their partnership
grant funded period of operation so that they could apply for FDC funding
going forward.
Kevin Gorman
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Congratulations all :)
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Kevin Gorman
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury wrote:
> Congratulations all & good luck..
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Steven Zhang wrote:
>
> > Congratulations to you all, and good luck. I'm sure y
If we don't want to develop an internal solution, it would be pretty
simple to set up a private flickr album and email it out to all
attendees for feedback.
Kevin Gorman
user:kgorman-ucb
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> However this is done, it could also be
For clarity, by verifiability of sources, what I meant was "we know
where this image came from and know it's freely licensed" - nothing
beyond that
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Kevin Gorman wrote:
> Commons has a policy dealing with neutrality, but it's very differ
perhaps if they start citing the history sections. I think a travel
guide fits in with the aims of the WMF, and I think that there would
be beneficial synergy between the existing travel guide community and
the existing Wikimedia community.
----
Kevin Gorman
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