Hm. Garfield is the closest person I know in the Foundation to the FDC in its role of evaluating the Foundation's Annual Plan for the entire organization. The only other people I can think of who might be able to comment for the whole org are Gayle and Lila.
By the way, after the latest Product launch controversy (MediaViewer) I proposed the creation of a Board-chartered Technology Committee that would include significant community involvement. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard#Suggestion_for_the_Board:_Technology_Committee Pine On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Steven Walling <steven.wall...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > MzMcbride, I'm not sure that WMF is overstaffed, but I would like to see > > more specific performance metrics for some groups. The FDC commented on > > this as well and I hope WMF is taking that to heart. I'm pinging Garfield > > for comment on that portion of this discussion. > > > > Garfield is not really the right person to ask about this. A CFO (or at > least, our CFO) doesn't set or monitor performance metrics for individual > teams other than his own. > > Regardless, I think it's an important topic Pete. Having more community > members comment on and question the yearly or quarterly goals for teams in > general would be step toward the kind of feedback Gryllida mentioned in the > start of the topic. If anyone is interested in digging in to this more, > there's a thread on the Talk page of the WMF engineering goals for 2014-15 > document, which is at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals. (There > are also goals for other teams of course, but since this is an > engineering-related thread I wanted to focus on just that.) > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
