[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:02 PM Yair Rand wrote: > I'm going to strongly disagree with this. > > People are allowed to have outside interests. Being incidentally > interested in blockchain tech is not a disqualifying attribute. Having > worked in large technology companies is not a disqualifying

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Crypto + NFTs + {tech startup + disrupt + housing market} sounds like *just* the kind of person WMF needs on its board! Luis Bitencourt-Emilio might be a great person, and just who we need on the Board right now, but the optics seem terrible. Maybe I've been spending too much time in the wrong

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 4:26 AM Todd Allen wrote: > Sorry I couldn't get back to you until now, as I didn't see this. > > Both you and Gerard's response share the same deficiency: Lack of detail. > This is basically marketese "sounds good" speak, but without any detail. > Sure, that stuff sounds

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

rather than > trying to provide 'advanced tools' that are intrinsically biased? > > Thanks, > Mike > > On 15/10/21 22:51:21, Guettarda wrote: > > Hi Mike > > > > The questions were selected from this list: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Cha

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

Hi Mike The questions were selected from this list: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Election_Compass/Statements People voted and the top ones were chosen. (A few near-duplicates that ranked at the top were combined by Cornelius, iirc). The raw data underlying

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Gnangarra wrote: > ​ > technology is our tool not our purpose > > This should be printed on a banner and hung on the wall every time the Board meets. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Congratulations to MediaWiki Farmers User Group for being approved as a Wikimedia User Group

I was thinking of ways that farmers might use Wikipedia. Or maybe that a group of them had gotten together to improve our content in Ag. Or something. But no such luck... On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:59 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: *sigh* I was hoping the farmers had united