On 15-04-09 04:52 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote:
> but it is also not for everyone as it can be
> isolating
I think that, at the Foundation, we are blessed to have several
opportunities a year to meet with our colleagues during events, and that
things would be much more difficult as a distributed team i
All --
As a matter of strategy we should be leveraging our open-source roots more
as we grow. This means distributed, loosely-coupled teams. We know from
software industry history that distributed teams work best when they are
*entirely* distributed. We are working on some structures that will al
Hi folks,
Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog:
• Wikimedia Foundation releases latest transparency report
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/07/wikimedia-transparency-report/
• The new Content Translation tool is now used on 22 Wikipedias
http://blog.wikimedia.or
On 9 April 2015 at 16:47, Garfield Byrd wrote:
> Hi Fae,
>
> We have 215 staff in total, with a hub of activity in San Francisco and
> other staff in several other states and 18 countries. So I agree talented
> people can be found globally and WMF does hire the best talent it can find
> wherever
Hi Fae,
We have 215 staff in total, with a hub of activity in San Francisco and
other staff in several other states and 18 countries. So I agree talented
people can be found globally and WMF does hire the best talent it can find
wherever they are located. At this point adding offices in other lo
FYI an official message from Wikimedia CH:
Dear all,
Wikimedia CH held its annual General Assembly on 21 March. We're pleased to
announce that all of the Board re-candidated and were re-elected. We're
even more pleased to welcome a new, seventh Board member: Micha Rieser (
http://en.wikipedia.
Hi Pine,
I have answered your questions in your email.
Regards,
Garfield
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Pine W wrote:
> Hi Garfield,
>
> Ok, follow up questions:
>
> * Does WMF have a plan to keep the Foundation and its essential functions
> operational if, say, the San Francisco main build
People who are interested in the history of my views on network
neutrality may find fodder here in this 2006 article I wrote on behalf
of the American Library Association.
http://www.ala.org/offices/sites/ala.org.offices/files/content/oitp/publications/issuebriefs/A%20Library%20Perspectiv.pdf
To
I'm not convinced you offered me a better choice of venue, geni. (If
you did, I missed the email.) But, then, I'm also not convinced that
worrying about venue -- rather than, say, focusing on publishing with
a journal that would give me the space to develop an argument at some
length.
I'm not well
On 9 April 2015 at 00:51, Mike Godwin wrote:
> http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/08/nothing-but-net
>
>
> --Mike
>
I'm not convinced you are helping your case with your choice of venue.
--
geni
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On 9 April 2015 at 01:16, Garfield Byrd wrote:
> ... The advantages of having good access to talented people and
> organizations WMF interacts with far outweigh any advantages to moving to a
> lower cost location outside of the San Francisco market area.
I find the world-view expressed here sligh
Hi Garfield,
Ok, follow up questions:
* Does WMF have a plan to keep the Foundation and its essential functions
operational if, say, the San Francisco main building all SF staff are
completely offline and unreachable by phone for a week after an earthquake?
* Would there be worthwhile advantages
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