Hi Christophe,
Thanks. Your email is more than I expected on a weekend. Board members get
to have AFK time too. There are people (both Wikimedians and WMFers) who
need to deal with emergencies of various kinds (primarily technical or
safety) whenever those happen, and community activity needs to b
Hey,
As you said you've asked the question during the week-end ^^
Things are moving forward but I'll let Katherine answer the question as
she'll be able a way better answer than me (I talk about that topic nearly
every week with Katherine, it is a high priority topic for all of us).
Please bare
Returning to one of the original subjects of this thread, which wasn't
intended to be controversial: can we get an update about how the C level
hiring schedule looks?
I realize that I asked this questiom on the weekend. There is no rush to
get an answer. "We're still thinking about this but will h
Pete,
I'm intentionally anonymizing communications that happened in private. But
yes, I agree that it would be best if there was public discussion about
this subject from people who are more directly involved in it. If that
needs to go through chain of command (up to Katherine if necessary) to
hap
Pine, maybe so, but if that's what you're going for, your best move might
be to privately urge the people who have talked to you to come forward
publicly -- rather than you sharing their words without attribution or
context.
The information that came through from your message is, "Pine asserts tha
Discussing an organization's strengths and weaknesses, transparently,
should be the norm for how business is done. Keeping quiet about problems
is sometimes necessary, but transparency should be the norm.
Pine
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Keegan Peterzell
wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Pine W wrote:
> I agree that there can be a benefit to internal promotions in the sense
> that less onboarding is required. On the other hand, sometimes a fresh
> perspective is helpful, and at least one of the interim Cs has been
> insistent that they want to re
If it is the case that normal C-level churn was significantly accelerated
by the choice of ED (which makes sense to me; I had previously heard this
explicitly only with regard to one former C) then this is another reason
that I hope that there will be some reflection by the Board about what went
wr
+1 on train & promote.
Vito
2016-08-14 4:38 GMT+02:00 James Heilman :
> Only the CTO position is empty. All of the rest are filled with very
> competent interims who may simply be transitioned into permanent. I like it
> that people who prove themselves to be excellent can move up within the WMF
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Pine W wrote:
>
> I am also wondering about what can be done to keep C levels after we get
> them.
The implicit assertion that this is a problem we generally suffer from is,
I think, incorrect. We have generally not had difficulty retaining our
c-levels for dec
I agree that there can be a benefit to internal promotions in the sense
that less onboarding is required. On the other hand, sometimes a fresh
perspective is helpful, and at least one of the interim Cs has been
insistent that they want to return to their previous job.
Also, while people are in int
Only the CTO position is empty. All of the rest are filled with very
competent interims who may simply be transitioned into permanent. I like it
that people who prove themselves to be excellent can move up within the WMF
and think that this is often better than hiring from outside.
James
On Sat,
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