Part of me still thinks we'd be better off and it would be easier to try clone Sue rather than trying to find a suitable replacement for her... On 29/01/2014 7:03 PM, "Ting Chen" <wing.phil...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello dear all, hello Transition Team, hello dear board, > > I am still willing to take the challenge. > > Looking into the description of the search criteria: > > <cite>Key to the success of the Executive Director will be a commitment to > understand and advance Wikimedia's core values.</cite> > - In many occasions in the past years I have demonstrated that the core > values of our movement are part of my life. They are the values that I use > to guide my behavior and my decisions, not only inside of the movement, but > also in my professional work and in my personal life. > > <cite>The Executive Director will need to have the technology management > and product development skills to effectively lead a high traffic website, > and experience designing and implementing planning processes with a high > built-in assumption of fast and iterative change.</cite> > - In the past 16 years I worked in a company which like no other IT > companies had decisively contributed into the establishment of standards > and processes of the industry. I started in that company as a programmer on > the OS (Assembler and C++) level and moved with the time into the position > of technical lead of projects that are set into highly complicated > political contexts. Being a subject matter expert, I am the anchor with > facts and expertise between the different political interests and streams, > build trust with my open and direct communication style to all groups and > parties and move things forward by understand the background of the > different interests and so build bridges and provide solutions that address > those backgrounds directly. These are the skills and personal marks that > brought me there where I am now: Into the core of those troubled projects. > > <cite>He or she will need to have exceptional communication skills, and to > possess both a drive to achieve transformative results and a deep respect > for collaborative processes. The ED's ability to effect change in > partnership with Wikimedia's community will be decisive not just to their > success, but to Wikimedia's lasting impact in the 21st century.</cite> > - As I have stated in my resign letter from the board, I believe this is > indeed the most intriguing, most urgent and most difficult part of the work > that lay directly before us in the next decade. And for this we need, more > than anyone else inside of the movement, an ED who is really trusted by the > community (to which I count the readers, the editors, the affiliated > organizations, their board and staff, the staff of the Foundation, and the > board). Gain trust is hard work, build trust needs time. It took me long > time, two or three years, to build that mutual trust with many of the > people within our movement. And trust is the thing that thwart the belief > that the process has the luxury of time. Because with the lasting of > indecisive time the trust sinks and the anxiouty raises. > > As it is remarked at one point, there is no obvious career path that leads > to this position. After seeing the result of last year's search I am > strengthend in my belief, that I am the best fit for this position. > > Greetings > Ting > > > > > > Am 1/21/2014 12:09 PM, schrieb Jan-Bart de Vreede: > >> Hey Frederico >> >> I will write an update for the meta page in the coming week or so but >> just to give you a general sense of where we are at: we are trying to reach >> potential candidates in a different way, and so far that looks like a good >> strategy. This means more direct contact between the Foundation and >> candidates and more pro-actively reaching out to people who initially >> showed no interest. >> >> There is no scientific way to make the trade-off between >> characteristics/skills of candidates. We might very well choose to ignore >> an important characteristic if all the others fall into place. And it is of >> course easier to make a trade-off on less significant characteristics and >> skills. The decision to look for more candidates rather than make a choice >> in December was not an easy one, but we were not willing to go for a >> candidate who was missing too many of our desired characteristics/skills. >> This is something that the transition team does, and its not something that >> translates well to a table on meta. >> >> I am not sure what you are referring to as "avoid another fiasco", but as >> far as I am concerned we are simply in a stage of finding new candidates >> and trying to surface the candidate that is up to the challenge and >> opportunity that we as a unique movement have to offer. This was always an >> option, and we would have liked to have found someone in the first round, >> but it wasn't to be. >> >> Jan-Bart de Vreede >> >> >> >> On 18 Jan 2014, at 11:08, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I don't know what to think about a final community consultation on a >>> specific name. Personally I suspect that I wouldn't be able to say anything >>> about it, as with <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Executive_Director_ >>> Transition_Team/Update_9_December>. >>> Speaking of which, I wonder how the problems there were >>> addressed: apparently they just expanded the search and reduced the number >>> of people participating, but I see no answers to the question: <<Have we >>> been looking for a unicorn -- somebody who doesn't exist in the real world? >>> [...] too insular? [...] unfairly comparing [...]?>>. >>> If an answer was found, I'd like to know it. To me that only >>> looked like a rhetorical question, because of course I have no idea what >>> exact criteria/questions/interview practices are being applied or if unfair >>> comparisons were made. To avoid another fiasco, it would probably be useful >>> to publish on Meta an anonymised table of candidates, pointing out >>> strengths and weaknesses in a single line for each. Then one could say <<oh, >>> look, "criterion" 175 made 12 otherwise awesome candidates "fail", do we >>> really need it?>>. >>> >>> Nemo >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list >>> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>