[Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-01 Thread Chris Keating
Dear all, Please join me in welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator, starting today. You may well already know Richard as an extremely experienced and committed Wikipedian under the name User:Chase me ladies I'm the cavalry Richard will be providing some vital support to the Board t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-01 Thread Doug Weller
Welcome aboard Richard. Doug On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Chris Keating wrote: > Dear all, > > Please join me in welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office > Administrator, starting today. You may well already know Richard as an > extremely experienced and committed Wikipedian under the name > Us

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-01 Thread James Forrester
On 1 September 2011 08:55, Chris Keating wrote: > Dear all, > > Please join me in welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office > Administrator, starting today. You may well already know Richard as an > extremely experienced and committed Wikipedian under the name > User:Chase me ladies I'm the cavalry

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 1 September 2011 08:55, Chris Keating wrote: > Dear all, > > Please join me in welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office > Administrator, starting today. You may well already know Richard as an > extremely experienced and committed Wikipedian under the name > User:Chase me ladies I'm the cavalry

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-01 Thread Richard Symonds
-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dalton Sent: 01 September 2011 12:30 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator On 1 September 2011 08:55, Chris Keating wrote: > Dear all, > > Please join me in wel

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 1 September 2011 12:32, Richard Symonds wrote: > Thanks Thomas! > > As I understand it, I'm on a temporary contract until January 15. Details of > the role are publicly available at > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_Administrator. Ok, so you're basically being hired to work on the fundrais

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-01 Thread Chris Keating
>> As I understand it, I'm on a temporary contract until January 15. Details of >> the role are publicly available at >> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_Administrator. > > Ok, so you're basically being hired to work on the fundraiser. I guess > the plan is to wait until the CEO starts before de

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-03 Thread Deryck Chan
Will this new official capacity as WMUK paid staff present any conflict of interest with Richard's current role as en.wp arbitrator? On Sep 1, 2011 7:47 PM, "Chris Keating" wrote: >>> As I understand it, I'm on a temporary contract until January 15. Details of >>> the role are publicly available

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-03 Thread WereSpielChequers
The only practical issues would be if an arbitration case came up that involved a board member, or a UK issue such as the British and Irish naming dispute. I expect Richard would recuse as Arb from such a case. But that's no big deal, lots of cases have an Arb or two recusing, one of the reasons wh

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-03 Thread Thomas Dalton
Since this is an administrative role, I don't see a big problem. Having an arb as CEO or volunteer coordinator would be problematic. On Sep 3, 2011 9:25 AM, "Deryck Chan" wrote: > Will this new official capacity as WMUK paid staff present any conflict of > interest with Richard's current role as e

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-03 Thread Richard Symonds
As always, anyone who thinks I should recuse on an issue is welcome to ask me to do so, publicly or privately. If the request is made in good faith, I'll happily recuse. In addition, the committee are aware of my new job, and have been for a while now - none have raised any objections, indeed,