Hi, sure I didn't mean every external consultancy is evil. Sorry if I sounded like that. Firstly, the world is not divided between good and evil, like if we had an axis of evil. :P
Just as an example, the same company I just criticized had a better performance in another country. Things can vary a lot and I am sure people in charge of the particular process are aware of that. I just wanted to remind a particular case that I believe is worth studying. And I do think sometimes to have an external consultancy can help us to diminish our own bias. ;) Tom On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede <jdevre...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi > > Sounded like good intervention, thanks for reminding me :) > > Truth is of course that board Governance Committee is driving this process > together with Gayle. That means that multiple community (s)elected board > members are involved in the initial screening and that the whole board will > be included in the final selection. > > This would also be a good opportunity to make a small point: not all external > consultancy is evil :) As a community we tend to be naturally suspicious of > people that get paid "a lot" of money for tasks that theoretically "could > also be done my the community"… There is a good reason why we sometimes rely > on paid external advisors, some of which were given by Gayle. > > m|Oppenheim in particular has been a great partner in WMF hiring with great > results, and I hope that they can be as effective in this search (which we > hope you can help out with by suggesting good candidates to them) > > Regards > > Jan-Bart -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
