I've been thinking more about this issue since yesterday. I should correct myself and say that my comment about "the Board are often not particularly responsive" now appears to be a little outdated, I also should acknowledge that some Board members are more responsive than others rather than painting everyone with the same brush, and also that there seems to be some interest on the Board noticeboard in improving communications. I gladly support the interest in improving communications and in principle I would support a Board initiative on that subject. I am wondering if assigning a particular staff person to organize and support Board communications would be helpful both for the Board and for the community, and perhaps for other WMF employees as well. I apologize for letting my frustration get the better of me with my previous comment.
Turning to the subject of financial transparency, this a longstanding topic of frustration for me with WMF. From my perspective I don't understand why there's so much resistance to this, and my guess based on how long this has been happening is that there's a cultural issue in WMF that is limiting progress in this area. This may be a fruitful topic of conversation when I approach Christophe, and I'm hoping that he'll be open to having this conversation. Pine On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rogol, > > Thanks for the comments. I'm uninterested in running for the WMF board; I > have plenty of unpaid responsibilities already and I'm trying to have fewer > of them rather than more. > > The thought has crossed my mind that maybe I should be having this > conversation with the Board rather than the staff. However, as you have > noted, the Board are often not particularly responsive, and in either case > I think it should be very possible for the staff to respond to the > questions that I asked with a few minutes of their time. It appears that > staff is choosing not to cooperate, which is disappointing, so I do have > the topic of financial transparency in general -- and the strategy budget > in particular -- in mind as topics that I will likely ask Christophe to > address, perhaps next week. > > Pine > > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Rogol Domedonfors <domedonf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Pine >> >> It is for the Board members, collectively and individually, to oversee the >> management and affairs of the Foundation. You should ask them as Trustees >> to comment. I myself have had little success in that direction, but >> perhaps you will do better. However, the staff of the Foundation are >> answerable only to the Board, and the Board members as Trustees are >> answerable only to themselves. If you are unable to obtain the assurances >> you need, then your only recourse is to put your name forward for >> nomination to the Board yourself. >> >> Good luck! >> >> "Rogol" >> >> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
