Hi John, would it perhaps be more effective to send these questions to the audit committee, whose role it is (as far as I can tell) to control this kind of issues? They also have the authority to give relevant advices where necessary.
Best, Lodewijk 2010/10/12 John Vandenberg <[email protected]> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:10 AM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12 October 2010 00:00, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The following message was rejected by moderators, but I think it is > >> worth noting on this list. > >> > >> Whether 'we' like it or not, Gregory Kohs is asking probing questions > >> and ignoring him is not making him go away; quite the contrary > >> actually. > >> > >> http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/gregory-kohs > > > > Paying attention to him isn't helping either. We are not short of > > people to ask probing questions/ > > Nobody else asked these questions. > > Did Philippe Beaudette work for Q2 Consulting, or is Greg Kohs wrong? > Was this contract more than USD$5,000? > If so, I assume that this contract falls under the Purchasing & > Disbursements policy, and needed to be signed by Executive Director or > the Deputy Director plus the CFOO. > Were other firms considered by whoever signed this? > Does WMF have a policy which sets some parameters around when > contracts must be competitively sourced? If not, they should. I > don't mind if a $5,000 contract isn't competitively sourced, but I > would be disturbed if it was a $20,000 contract. > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Purchasing_%26_Disbursements_Policy > > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >> From: Gregory Kohs <[email protected]> > >> Date: Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:20 AM > >> Subject: Re: Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....) > >> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected] > > > >> > >> > >> Unfortunately, neither Philippe Beaudette nor Jay Walsh would respond > >> to the question about competitive bidding for this important study of > >> WMF donors, so the article in Examiner.com ran without their comment. > > > > Examiner.com is Gregory Kohs self publishing. He gets a share of the > > ad revenue on the articles he publishes so of course he is going to > > want to post them to this list. > > Greg wouldn't have a story if someone at WMF had answered the questions > here. > > >> (Note, according to Alexa.com, Examiner receives more Internet reach > >> than Business Week, Time Magazine, or CBS News.) > > > > Or to put it another way a bunch of sites unlikely to game their alexa > rank. > > How would Examiner.com do that? Do they do that? > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
