On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Rogol Domedonfors
wrote:
> Christophe
>
> On 20 December, you wrote
>
> > Basically it's making the legal team life's easier when they need to do
> > small and/or quick changes. They don't have to go through the whole
> > resolution process to change a comma.
> >
>
Christophe
On 20 December, you wrote
> Basically it's making the legal team life's easier when they need to do
> small and/or quick changes. They don't have to go through the whole
> resolution process to change a comma.
>
> Now you write
> the Executive Director
> has authority to set and chang
On 02/06/2017 11:53 AM, Pine W wrote:
Hi Christophe,
You wrote, "This delegates authority, not responsability." Perhaps you
could explain the distinction. It seems to me that the two go hand in hand.
Pine, I disagree. I have had plenty of jobs where I had the authority to
do something, but the
Hi Christophe,
You wrote, "This delegates authority, not responsability." Perhaps you
could explain the distinction. It seems to me that the two go hand in hand.
Speaking generally, it sounds to me like the Board has good intentions
here, but there is a lot of room for error and misunderstandings
Hey,
Sorry, with everything I forgot to answer this thread. So I'll provide a
general answer if I may. As I've shared back in June, for this year, some
of my goals include building a strong working relationship between the
Board and the Executive Director, and helping the Board focus on the most
Christophe,
Would you provide us an update on this topic, please?
Pine
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Pine W wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
>
> Now that the end-of-Western-year holidays are behind us, I'm bumping this
> thread in the hope that you'll respond to the points that I made in my
> email
The ostensible rationale for this change, according to the Board chair was
"Basically it's making the legal team life's easier when they need to do
small and/or quick changes. They don't have to go through the whole
resolution process to change a comma."
The new donor privacy policy has been expli
Hi Christophe,
Now that the end-of-Western-year holidays are behind us, I'm bumping this
thread in the hope that you'll respond to the points that I made in my
email from December 23rd.
Thanks,
Pine
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Pine W wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
>
> Thank you for responding
Christophe, I agree with your statements:
> That resolution provides staff the liberty to do their work more
> efficiently. It doesn't remove our duty of oversight.
Would a requirement to publish policy changes at least, say, a month
before they go into effect along with a complete rationale allo
Hi Christophe,
Thank you for responding to my questions.
> First, the resolution and its context. "Supervising" the ED is indeed a
> board duty, but this supervision must not become micro-management. That
> resolution provides staff the liberty to do their work more efficiently. It
> doesn't rem
It seems that the Chairman of the Board "fail[s] to see what community
input could have brought" to its decision to "delegate[] the authority to
adopt, alter, and revoke policies to the Executive Director," the purpose
of which was "making the legal team life's easier when they need to dosmall
and/
Christophe Henner wrote:
>Basically it's making the legal team life's easier when they need to do
>small and/or quick changes. They don't have to go through the whole
>resolution process to change a comma.
>
>We're still informed and are talking with staff about those changes.
>
>As for responsibil
Hi Chris,
I'd argue instead that we should strive to a consultation model or
structure so that it doesn't cost so much time and energy, that we limit it
to huge and obvious issues.
This is a very broadly phrased resolution, that I cannot out of hand
oversee the consequences of. The core of the re
Personally I'd argue that WMF should only spend their (and everyone's) time
and energy on consultation when it's a substantive issue.
Chris
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Lodewijk
wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
>
> I'm afraid that does not answer my question. If it changes absolutely
> nothing, it
Hi Christophe,
I'm afraid that does not answer my question. If it changes absolutely
nothing, it would be an unnecessary resolution. So surely there is
*something* that changes (and that doesn't have to be a bad thing), such as
improved clarity or legal certainty. But probably you're right - and t
Hey,
I feel there might be a misunderstanding here :)
Legal team has, for a long time now, always worked with the community on
policy updates.
I don't see that changing.
This is a technical / legal delegation. I fail to see what community input
could have brought. We needed to be able to make c
Hi Christophe, all,
I wonder, was there an urgency to pass this resolution, or did I miss the
invitation for community members to give input on this proposal? It doesn't
look particularly sensitive so that it couldn't be shared in advance. It
has potentially direct impact on the functioning of the
hi Craig,
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Craig Franklin
wrote:
> As frustrating as the drama was at the beginning of the year for us, I'd
> prefer to get one well considered story from someone like Dariusz, rather
> than a mishmash of uncoordinated replies that have some inconsequential
> cont
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Christophe Henner
wrote:
> First, the resolution and its context. "Supervising" the ED is indeed a
> board duty, but this supervision must not become micro-management. That
> resolution provides staff the liberty to do their work more efficiently. It
> doesn't rem
As frustrating as the drama was at the beginning of the year for us, I'd
prefer to get one well considered story from someone like Dariusz, rather
than a mishmash of uncoordinated replies that have some inconsequential
contradictions in them for people to obsess over. Sometimes too much
communicat
Hi Pine,
If you don't mind I will address your different points separately.
First, the resolution and its context. "Supervising" the ED is indeed a
board duty, but this supervision must not become micro-management. That
resolution provides staff the liberty to do their work more efficiently. It
d
"My perspective is that the 2015 board was not particularly responsive to
community (or WMF employees') questions or input, including questions and
input regarding human resources and governance matters. (For example, I
still haven't seen a good explanation of why WMF shouldn't undergo a
governance
Hi Christophe,
I wish it was true that the Board is required to answer the community's
questions, but that isn't the case. WMF isn't a membership organization,
there isn't a policy that requires the Board to be responsive to community
input and questions, and the community has limited ability to i
Hey,
Basically it's making the legal team life's easier when they need to do
small and/or quick changes. They don't have to go through the whole
resolution process to change a comma.
We're still informed and are talking with staff about those changes.
As for responsibility, we decided to delegat
This is probably of interest to this list.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Delegation_of_policy-making_authority
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Delegation of policy-making authority
This was approved on December 13, 2016 by the Board of Trustees.
Whereas, the Board of Trustees has traditionally approved certain glob
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