Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Support of Community

[Domas Mituzas]

Damon, for those who are not native in gibberish, care to translate?

Cheers,
Doma

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Damon Sicore  wrote:

> To All,
>
> Just to mark this moment, or maybe remind those who paid attention when I
> published these, some long before I vanished in silence:
>
> https://damon.sicore.com/proof-0/
>
> https://damon.sicore.com/proof-1/
>
> https://damon.sicore.com/proof-2/
>
> https://damon.sicore.com/proof-3/
>
> https://damon.sicore.com/proof-4/
>
> https://damon.sicore.com/proof-5/
>
> https://damon.sicore.com/proof-6-the-mistake/
>
> https://damon.sicore.com/proof-the-stand/
>
> I trust James Heilman.  I support the community.
>
> :)
>
> Yours faithfully,
> Damon Sicore
> aka: gnubeard, ex-vp of eng, and briefly head of product, WMF
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you, Jan-Bart and Stu

[Domas Mituzas]

End of an era. It was a pleasure to work with JB and Stu. I'd like to echo
the amusement about them being "outsiders".
At the time when Stu was appointed, he was an editor and has been on the
foundation-l pulse for extended amount of time and was the only board
member interested in the technology/operational aspect of running whatever
we were running at the time.
Jan-Bart on the other hand bought his way in with the Kennisnet server
donation, which served as a base for our European domination. Well played
sir. :-)

Thanks for your service, you both. I doubt this Google-puppet board will
match your contributions any time soon.

Greetings from the dark side,
Domas

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Lodewijk 
wrote:

> While we have long discussions on this list about board composition, we
> seem to almost ignore the fact that two long time veterans are leaving the
> Wikimedia Foundation board, as scheduled. Jan-Bart de Vreede and Stu West
> have been around longer than many regular editors nowadays, and I think
> there are not many people who can recall the days that the board didn't
> have them on it. I have never had the pleasure to serve on the board with
> them, but a little thank-you from our community side, would seem in place.
>
> Stu joined the board already in 2008 (filling Michael Davis' seat), and has
> been a solid power on the board's audit responsibilities (I believe he
> chaired the audit committee for quite a while) and was a force behind the
> accountability of movement affiliates. While we often strongly disagreed on
> affiliate issues, I appreciate the fact that he always remained
> constructive and wanted to think about solutions rather than problems. He
> served both as treasurer and vice chair.
>
> Jan-Bart was on the board even longer, since early 2007, and I recall
> already working with him through Kennisnet (a Dutch foundation for
> education and IT) before that. Jan-Bart is one of those rare people who
> went to ALL wikimania conferences, and can be easily recognised there with
> his big smile. I can't remember a theme Jan-Bart didn't work on in the past
> years (Affiliates, HR, searching a new Executive Director) and he served
> the board in many positions, including as chair.
>
> I'm sure that the WMF communications staff and/or board has a nice thankyou
> coming up - with a more accurate description of the awesome work they did,
> that I now made up from the top of my head. But in the mean time, I'd like
> to do it myself: Thank you Jan-Bart and Stu for all the time, energy and
> effort that you poured into our movement. I know that not all of us
> appreciate this as much as we perhaps should, and sometimes you may even
> have perceived us as hostile. I do sincerely hope that you had fun with us
> though, and I'm confident that you made a big dent in our impossible
> mission of sharing the sum of all knowledge with everyone.
>
> I hope to meet you again soon, at least in Italy at Wikimania, and I hope
> to see you around in our movement in many different ways.
>
> Best,
>
> Lodewijk
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