Hi Pine,
I have answered your questions in your email.
Regards,
Garfield
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com 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
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
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On 9 April 2015 at 16:47, Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org 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
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
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
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
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 if
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
On 9 April 2015 at 01:16, Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org 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
On 9 April 2015 at 00:51, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com 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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