It would. And Fellows, etc. ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Matthew Roth <mr...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org > >wrote: > > > On 28/12/12 12:14, Gayle Karen Young wrote: > > >> *2d. Does WMF have "a talent retention problem" and if so what is > being > > >> done about this? > > >> > > > > > > The short answer is "No." > > > > > > The simplicity of this question is a bit misleading. I don't think we > > have > > > a talent retention problem because we have amazing people working for > us > > > who have and will continue to. The reasons that people move on are > > > sometimes but not always problematic. I think it's GOOD for people to > > leave > > > the organization at various points - for their own career development, > > > because the things that were more endemic to a start-up environment > are a > > > little less prevalent at our stage of organizational growth, etc. > > > > A count of office.wikimedia.org account deactivations suggests that > > about 59 people left the WMF in 2012, for whatever reason. To me, that > > seems like a lot of people. Maybe it's occasionally good for people to > > leave, but so many? > > > > Does that include interns? I know my interns get access to Office Wiki, so > it might skew the numbers higher. I believe LCA has had at least 8-10 (?) > interns cycle through in 2012. I've had a couple. > > -Matthew > > > > > > -- Tim Starling > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > > > -- > > Matthew Roth > Global Communications Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 > www.wikimediafoundation.org > *https://donate.wikimedia.org* > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l