Hi Quim,
I was digressing a little from the original subject of this thread when I
talked about WMF career development support for volunteers, but here are a
few suggestions:
1. Prioritize work on the open badges system.
2. Make information about WMF contract positions more public. Currently,
th
>Another thought: perhaps more investment could be made in providing career
>development support for our volunteers of all kinds. It's relatively common
>in the United States for organizations with lots of volunteers to put some
>investment explicitly into helping the volunteers develop skills snd
Anders, I don't think I'm underestimating the competence we have in this
community. I'm wondering which demographics we should look at in order to
detect potential candidates for engineering executives (replying to Pine's
ping). I'm also suggesting that improving the communication of our open
posit
Another thought: perhaps more investment could be made in providing career
development support for our volunteers of all kinds. It's relatively common
in the United States for organizations with lots of volunteers to put some
investment explicitly into helping the volunteers develop skills snd
expe
Quim Gil skrev den 2015-07-03 14:27:
I think that if there would be a good candidate for a VP of
Engineering in our community, they wouldn't have been unnoticed (but I
might be wrong).
Please do not underestimate the competence existing in the community.
For myself I have seven years of exper
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Pine W wrote:
> Pinging Quim in case he can give us some demographics of Wikimedia's
> volunteer tech pool and whether he thinks it might be possible to find an
> engineering executive in that pool.
>
I'm not sure which demographics we should look at. While we hav
It would be nice if there was an appropriately qualified person who was
interested in the position - although one must remember that the previous
Deputy ED and VP Engineering was very much "of the community" and several
past and current engineering and tech leaders (and staff!) have come from
the c
I think most VPNs are tone deaf. ;)
Yes, in general I would like to see more respect from WMF for the
collective wisdom of the community and for the use of volunteer time.
Appointing a technical or content contributor to an executive role would be
a good thing IMO.
Pine
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 6
...
Tone deafness of the WMF, and thank my phone for silly spelling.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Todd Allen wrote:
> You're talking to one now, and I know several others. Now speaking for me,
> I would never want to be "VP of anything", and so I'm certainly not asking
> this on my own behal
You're talking to one now, and I know several others. Now speaking for me,
I would never want to be "VP of anything", and so I'm certainly not asking
this on my own behalf, but that's not necessarily true of everyone.
Regardless, I'd at least like to see some preference given toward
volunteers who
Todd,
I'm not speaking for WMF or Lila here, just repeating what I've heard in
other circles: it's rare to find a software engineer or designer who's an
experienced Wikimedia content contributor. More common, but still far from
plentiful, are experienced engineers who've contributed to MediaWiki a
Lila,
Will any consideration be given toward selecting a new leader for the
engineering team who has been an active volunteer with a Wikimedia project
for some period of time?
Thanks,
Todd
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
> I wanted to let you know that Dam
Il 03/07/2015 02:38, Pete Forsyth ha scritto:
On Jul 2, 2015 5:32 PM, "Ricordisamoa" wrote:
Il 03/07/2015 01:35, Lila Tretikov ha scritto:
(Snip)
While I know you
may have additional questions, we can’t share more regarding personnel
Personal?
No, "personnel." It means, more or less, issu
On Jul 2, 2015 5:32 PM, "Ricordisamoa" wrote:
>
> Il 03/07/2015 01:35, Lila Tretikov ha scritto:
(Snip)
>> While I know you
>> may have additional questions, we can’t share more regarding personnel
>
>
> Personal?
No, "personnel." It means, more or less, issues about an individual,
relating to
Il 03/07/2015 01:35, Lila Tretikov ha scritto:
Dear all,
I wanted to let you know that Damon Sicore’s last day with the WMF was June
30th. Damon has served as the Vice President of Engineering and played a
role in our strategic thinking as we retool to fulfill our mission of
delivering free and
Thank you for this announcement Lila.
Good luck to Damon in his future endeavours;
Good luck to the leadership of the engineering teams during this transition;
And, good luck for recruiting the important CTO role soon!
Sincerely,
-Liam / Wittylama
On Friday, 3 July 2015, Lila Tretikov wrote:
>
Dear all,
I wanted to let you know that Damon Sicore’s last day with the WMF was June
30th. Damon has served as the Vice President of Engineering and played a
role in our strategic thinking as we retool to fulfill our mission of
delivering free and open knowledge to the world. We wish him well.
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