Re: [Wikimedia-l] fiction: WMF policy of paying less than market

2013-03-07 Thread [[w:en:User:Madman]]
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:46 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
 Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
 Finally I find the idea of restraining people to talk about salary
 almost comical

 Would you post the text of the non-disparagement clause referred to at
 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/April_5-7,_2008#Non-disparagement_and_confidentiality_agreement
 and
 http://uk.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_coolerdiff=19657oldid=19653
 please, so we can see exactly what it says?

At least in the U.S., per the National Labor Relations Act, employees
are always allowed to discuss wages without fear of reprisal from
their employers. So even if such a clause were to exist prohibiting
such discussion, it would have no legal effect.

-Madman/ea

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's support of OTRS

2013-02-20 Thread [[w:en:User:Madman]]
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:02 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
 This also isn't a criticism of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering folks.
 They've got plenty on their plate as well, of course. But _somebody_ has
 to be supporting the technical portion of OTRS. If the Wikimedia
 Foundation can't/won't, someone else has to step in. That's where I
 thought the chapters or another movement player might be an option.

Does anyone know what the status is of the OTRS project on Labs? Given
a contact, I'd be happy to do what I can to help; I have some limited
experience configuring/deploying OTRS (up until the end of the 3.0
branch last year, nothing with 3.1 or 3.2 unfortunately).

I think opportunities for *volunteer* help have to consciously be
maximized, especially for volunteers who are or are willing to be
agents and/or identified to the Foundation. It's not going to get done
otherwise.

-Madman/ea

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