Congrats friends. I hope you will do a lot of good works for the Wikimedia movement. :)
On 6 January 2016 at 18:09, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Anthony, > > The community elected Denny knowing that he worked at Google > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_elections/2015/Candidates#Denny_Vrande.C4.8Di.C4.87_.28Denny.29 > > > . > > If this was an additional conflict of interest taken on after his election > then things might be different, but this looks to me something better > resolved by declaring the interest and recusing from relevant votes and > discussions. > > I'm not entirely happy with the current board and especially the loss of > Doc James. Unless I've missed it neither the GLAM nor Medical sectors now > have an advocate on the board, but removing an elected board member for a > conflict of interest that was declared in his election statement would not > make sense to me. > > There is a wider issue that we also have people who have previously been > connected to various other organisations whose strategies might impinge on > ours. Do we or should we have some sort of break requirement such > as requiring directors to recuse from decisions involving recent former > employers? > > > ~~~~ > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > Pierre-Selim asked: "Are you suggesting the removal of another communitee > > selected board member?" > > > > I'm sure Denny would make a fine adviser. But having a voting board > member > > who is paid by Google, who in turn is almost the (and would like to be > the) > > monopoly commercial vendor of knowledge to the world, strikes me as > wrong. > > That's much too close an embrace. > > > > > > Anthony Cole > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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>
