Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

This does not seem unreasonable. Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 4:47 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

I have a difference of perspective on this with Philippe and Seddon. Records of personnel issues at many government agencies in the US are public records, and many of those government agencies seem to do OK with recruiting candidates. I have yet to hear any convincing reason why WMF should be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

James, are there any reasons that having a community-friendly opinion on the subpoena, national security letter, political risks and related overheads of using closed source hardware with backdoor coprocessors is an inappropriate litmus test for the Technology Expert seat on the Board? On Tue,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

This mailing list thread is about the Wikimedia Foundation recruiting members for its board and I would like to ask we stick to that, please. James Hare Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:22 AM, James Salsman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

To follow up on this, Katherine, would you please state the relative risk to politically controversial editors of using CPUs without backdoor coprocessors to host Foundation projects? Ref.: https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/for-deep-security-use-arm-avoid-intel-amd-processors/ Are there a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

On the original topic of technology advocacy representation on the Board, an we please get someone from the open source hardware community and Legal to tell us how much we could save in subpoena, hardware, and overhead costs by avoiding backdoors? Has anyone on the Board ever championed open

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

"I am unaware of any laws which would prohibit WMF from publishing the entirety of executives' compensation details including their employment contracts, severance agreements, and the circumstances in which their departures happen." Pine, I often appreciate your view and input on a range of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

Hello Antanana, Thank you for this information. I would like to bring the topic of WMF's financial transparency into the conversation about who should be selected for a WMF Board seat based on their knowledge of finance. I am dissatisfied with WMF's financial transparency on topics such as

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

Dear all, As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has two appointed Board members whose terms will expire during Wikimania 2018 - Kelly Battles and Alice Wiegand. We have been working to fill those seats and our goal is for potential candidates to join us in Cape Town during

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

Thank you all for the thoughtful search & updates. On Nov 29, 2017 7:14 PM, "Nataliia Tymkiv" wrote: > Dear all, > > The Board Governance Committee (BGC) has been working on finalizing another > potential candidate [1]. The results of the process were successful and the >

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

Dear all, The Board Governance Committee (BGC) has been working on finalizing another potential candidate [1]. The results of the process were successful and the Board has unanimously appointed the candidate the BGC has recommended. The announcement is planned for December 1, 2017, so in two days

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

Thank you for this detailed update. On Oct 5, 2017 5:24 PM, "Nataliia Tymkiv" wrote: > Dear all, > > Board recruiting has been demanding. We launched our first truly global > search. It was far more work than we expected. But I am glad to say that we > have significantly

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

Dear all, Board recruiting has been demanding. We launched our first truly global search. It was far more work than we expected. But I am glad to say that we have significantly expanded our talent network and are engaged in conversation with four, uniquely talented finalists. We have missed some