[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-27 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 5:03 AM Chris Keating wrote: > My concern over this specific instance is prompted by several things: Thanks for laying out these concerns very clearly, Chris! I'll reiterate that, above all, my own biggest concern here is that governance standards of the movement should

[Wikimedia-l] Convergence of proposals to create Movement Charter drafting committee - was Re: Re: "Expression of interest" Movement Charter Drafting Committee

2021-06-27 Thread Ad Huikeshoven
Dear all, Today's Global Conversations were about the composition, the selection, and compensation of members for a Movement Charter Drafting Committee. To move forward, convergence of opinions on the different proposals is necessary. So far there are four proposals: 1. A proposal by Pharos (the

[Wikimedia-l] Conflict of Interest - Transition from Trustee to Staff

2021-06-27 Thread Christophe Henner
I am just forking this thread so the title reflects the needed discussion and we avoid derailling again to non directly / personal topics. Le dim. 27 juin 2021 à 9:55 PM, Katherine Maher a écrit : > Hi folks, > > Leaving aside everything else for a minute, I want to reply to Maggie’s >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-27 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi folks, Leaving aside everything else for a minute, I want to reply to Maggie’s statement regarding the T case here. As someone with direct and specific knowledge of the issue, I feel responsibility to affirm Maggie’s version of events. Although we provided notice to the board that we were

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-27 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Dear Maggie (& everyone) Thank you for this email. I really feel that you should not have had to write this. I feel that the personal reference in an earlier mail (on this thread) to Maria and her partner was inappropriate and detracted from the discussion. But thank you for taking the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-27 Thread Maggie Dennis
Hi, everybody. It’s Sunday, and there’s a lot of meetings today, and I wrestled with whether to say this without necessarily having the full time to think about all the ways I could say it wrong and potentially make misunderstandings worse. We’re having a meeting on Tuesday specifically to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-27 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, First, I am a candidate for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. I have taken time to see what people say, not react immediately. For María to become a consultant, I am of two minds. She is probably best placed to support the implementation of the strategy as defined. With both the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-27 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
"founding a user group or chapter (the latter is pretty unlikely nowadays), applying for a grant proposal and being hired by your colleagues as the first staff member of the user group you founded would be something totally legal, just lacking any ethical or moral compass." - I believe you are

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-27 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Adding to Chris' points, I would also like to illustrate the point where in the future, founding a user group or chapter (the latter is pretty unlikely nowadays), applying for a grant proposal and being hired by your colleagues as the first staff member of the user group you founded would be

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-27 Thread Chris Keating
> > I will note that, as Chris pointed out, even WMUK's current policies > would permit a transaction like the one we're discussing if approved > by the Board ("no trustee may _without the consent of the board_" > [8]), and Wikimedia Austria's Good Governance Kodex would permit it if > approved by

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-27 Thread Dan Szymborski
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 4:47 PM Erik Moeller wrote: At least in my understanding, this thread conflates a good practice > (waiting periods) with violations of COI policies. As I understand it, > WMF adhered to its existing COI policy through the usual measures > (recusal & resignation from the