[Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Abbas Mahmoud
Does Wikimedia Foundation engage in Corporate Social Responsibility? ~Abbas. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 14:46, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 November 2010 13:41, Abbas Mahmoud abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Does Wikimedia Foundation engage in Corporate Social Responsibility? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility It appears to be

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Fred Bauder
Does Wikimedia Foundation engage in Corporate Social Responsibility? ~Abbas. Absolutely, but our main area of effort is disseminating cheap easily accessible knowledge on a global basis. What else do you have in mind? Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Fred Bauder
On 19 November 2010 13:41, Abbas Mahmoud abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Does Wikimedia Foundation engage in Corporate Social Responsibility? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility It appears to be something for for-profit corporations to do to appear less rapacious.

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Fred Bauder
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 14:46, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 November 2010 13:41, Abbas Mahmoud abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Does Wikimedia Foundation engage in Corporate Social Responsibility? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility It appears to be

[Foundation-l] Donor comments?

2010-11-19 Thread Renata St
Hey, what happened to the donor comment box and the log of all donations? The links from prior year redirect to : http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics Thanks, Renata ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Donor comments?

2010-11-19 Thread Sara Crouse
On 11/19/2010 08:43 AM, Renata St wrote: Hey, what happened to the donor comment box and the log of all donations? The links from prior year redirect to : http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics Thanks, Renata ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Donor comments?

2010-11-19 Thread Renata St
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Sara Crouse scro...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 11/19/2010 08:43 AM, Renata St wrote: Hey, what happened to the donor comment box and the log of all donations? The links from prior year redirect to :

Re: [Foundation-l] Donor comments?

2010-11-19 Thread Sara Crouse
On 11/19/2010 10:33 AM, Renata St wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Sara Crousescro...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 11/19/2010 08:43 AM, Renata St wrote: Hey, what happened to the donor comment box and the log of all donations? The links from prior year redirect to :

Re: [Foundation-l] Donor comments?

2010-11-19 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On 11/19/2010 12:33 PM, Renata St wrote: Thanks Sara. I was looking for that thinking that somebody already asked the q. That is so weird I would have never thought it would reduce donations Another q: are you going to have matching donations? If yes, I will wait to make mine. If

Re: [Foundation-l] Donor comments?

2010-11-19 Thread Michael Snow
On 11/19/2010 12:12 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: On 11/19/2010 12:33 PM, Renata St wrote: Thanks Sara. I was looking for that thinking that somebody already asked the q. That is so weird I would have never thought it would reduce donations Another q: are you going to have matching

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/11/2010 11:42, Fred Bauder wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 14:46, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 November 2010 13:41, Abbas Mahmoud abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Does Wikimedia Foundation engage in Corporate Social Responsibility?

Re: [Foundation-l] Donor comments?

2010-11-19 Thread Renata St
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.comwrote: On 11/19/2010 12:12 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: On 11/19/2010 12:33 PM, Renata St wrote: Thanks Sara. I was looking for that thinking that somebody already asked the q. That is so weird I would have never

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Fred Bauder
I would add policies for the WMF like a duty of transparency about money. I still don't understand how the WMF can state for example: The Wikimedia Foundation and Mike have figured out severance that we all hope will protect Mike and give him time to think about what he wants to do next.

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Dan Rosenthal
On Nov 19, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Noein wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/11/2010 11:42, Fred Bauder wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 14:46, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 November 2010 13:41, Abbas Mahmoud abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Does Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/11/2010 18:48, Fred Bauder wrote: I suspect it is more to avoid embarrassing him by disclosing he worked for so little than to hide Wikimedia business. By I suspect do you mean that you are speculating? I think we should stick to facts, since

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/11/2010 19:22, Dan Rosenthal wrote: Noein, personally, I would think that a duty of transparency about money and publicizing information about a private employee's salary, benefits, or severance packages are two wildly different things.

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I don't think many people would want to work for the Foundation if their salary, severance, raises, etc were regularly published to the outside world. Maybe this is only true in the US, but employee salaries are generally considered to be private information. Asking people to give up basic

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Risker
On 19 November 2010 18:39, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Several posts about disclosure of salaries and other personal information of employees past and present of the WMF Noein, I believe you will find the answers you seek in the latest

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread WJhonson
Salaries and wages accounted for 3.5 million in the last fiscal year http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/c/cc/FINAL_09_10From_KPMG.p df ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/19/2010 4:17:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, swatjes...@gmail.com writes: http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Form 990 for the past fiscal year is not posted there. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Risker
On 19 November 2010 19:24, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 11/19/2010 4:17:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, swatjes...@gmail.com writes: http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Form 990 for the past fiscal year is not posted there. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

2010-11-19 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/11/2010 21:31, Risker wrote: The last one is for the fiscal year ending June 2009, and was filed on 29 April 2010. Link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/5/54/WMF_2008_2009_Form_990.pdf The section on salaries begins on