I am hopeful that the resolution, when it is published, will provide us with more information.
IMO, speed is less important here than the completeness of the information. I'd prefer a more thorough explanation provided tomorrow than a hasty and potentially incomplete explanation today. Thanks, Pine On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Kevin Gorman <kgor...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 hope they're particularly strong reasons. Without looking up the > vote count in the last election: James has the trust of a huge segment of > the community, and also has a much stronger sense of direction in how WMF > should be steered than many of our trustees have in the past. His sudden > removal (the power mechanism I've cobbled together to have my laptop > functional today is hilarious) without further explanation looks way too > much like one of only three directly elected trustees spoke up too openly > in a way that wasn't welcomed about the directions he thought Wikimedia > should go - even though he literally published a platform before he was > elected. The sudden removal of a very well respected community elected > trustee has at least the appearance of a board that may not want to be > responsive to those who literally create it's only valuable asset. > > Best, > KG > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Tito Dutta <trulyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Add me as well. > > Eager to know what happened. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: 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, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>