Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation restructure (Global Dev Engineering)

2012-12-08 Thread Florence Devouard
Looks fine by me Sue. I also agree that restructuration is good,if only to avoid getting stuck in habits :) @Mathieu You argued that if it work's, do not break it. Indeed, but precisely, the prior very wide focus of the WMF was not working so well. And some time ago, the board decided that WMF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation restructure (Global Dev Engineering)

2012-12-07 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2012-12-07 01:04, Sue Gardner a écrit : Hello folks, On-passing this FYI --- I hope the formatting doesn't break too much. If people want to discuss this, maybe the first person could put it on a wiki page (attached to Narrowing Focus, maybe?) so the discussion is recorded for other

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation restructure (Global Dev Engineering)

2012-12-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 7 December 2012 00:04, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: First, we’re going to revamp Global Development. Starting now, that department will be called Grantmaking and Programs. It will be co-led by Anasuya (grantmaking) and Frank (programs). Anasuya and Frank will have separate

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation restructure (Global Dev Engineering)

2012-12-07 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, If there is a link to a chart of the organization, I would welcome to see it. The reorganization sounds good to me; personally I was especially interested in the parts that might have to do with the chapters. Kind regards Ziko 2012/12/7 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: On 7 December

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation restructure (Global Dev Engineering)

2012-12-06 Thread Abbas Mahmood
Hi Sue, What will happen to Oona once she identifies a suitable org willing to take over the Brazil programs? Abbas. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation restructure (Global Dev Engineering)

2012-12-06 Thread Sue Gardner
Hello folks, On-passing this FYI --- I hope the formatting doesn't break too much. If people want to discuss this, maybe the first person could put it on a wiki page (attached to Narrowing Focus, maybe?) so the discussion is recorded for other interested parties and can be revisited later, rather

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation restructure (Global Dev Engineering)

2012-12-06 Thread Anders Wennersten
From what we learned during our FDC deliberation, I see these changes to be very good (I have no competence re the engineering part and do not comment on those proposed changes) . The importance for us all to better understand impact of programs was one of the key learnings we had. And as