On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:
> So my concern is not that you lost touch with staff. I don't > particularly care about any one person. My concern is that the *board* > did. My concern is that when staff reached out the Board replied with > a letter indicating they had full and unanimous confidence in our > leadership. You indicating that you see a problem here and have some > sympathy is nice; so is you visiting the office. So is Alice visiting > the office. But nice is not sufficient. > > Guy Kawasaki, I believe, lives in the bay area (correct me if I'm > wrong). Denny works a 10 minute walk from the office. Kelly's org is > based in Mountain View. There are a whole host of trustees who could > be making it into the office, experiencing the culture and the > sentiment and the concerns directly. Why are they not coming in? Why > are they not listening to people? > I must confess that this was my initial response as well. My initial impression of Jimmy coming to SF was that this was a self-selected PR exercise for Jimmy – borne out of a desire to be seen as part of the solution of the problem, rather than part of its causes – and not so much an effort by the Board to develop a better rapport with staff. As you say, there are several board members who could comfortably pop in for afternoon tea at the WMF office any day of the week. Still, I hope the discussions with Jimmy and Alice in SF are fruitful. > While I appreciate, deeply, both you and Alice coming in, I am unable > to shake my concerns that the rest of the board making decisions > informed not by their perspectives but by your recollection of your > perspectives, is going to be tremendously limiting. We selected these > people because we thought they had something to contribute we didn't > already have: because their experiences would shape incoming > information in new and interesting ways. So let them receive that > information, and let them shape it. Let's have an informed board. > Because trust isn't great, right now, and this last year should have > made us steer *away* from processes with a small bus factor, not > towards them. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
