The idea of a non-voting seat for a non C-level employee is something that I could support.
Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Vi to <[email protected]> wrote: > 2016-02-25 23:34 GMT+01:00 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>: > > > I stopped responding to other emails because the significance of this > > moment is so large, that we have now we didn't have since the > > beginnings of Wikipedia. > > > > We've got the chance to rebuild the movement. > > > > I was about to write something like this, lots of ideas are arising but I > fear most of will be lost in confusion. > > > > > You proved to be capable. Last couple of weeks I read many insightful > > emails from you, WMF employees -- some of them I didn't know at all. I > > heard thoughts I've never heard before on this list. They've been born > > in pain and you mustn't lose them. > > > > Now you have the opportunity to lead *the* change. You are not anymore > > just the most organized part of the movement, you've just articulated > > yourself as capable to make the change you want to. > > > > > Working at WMF implies two kind of expectations: ...money! (Job -> salary, > simply!) but also a lot of moral/ethical expectations. What went wrong with > a stricter management were those expectations being frustrated. There's a > certain turnover between the volunteers and the paid staff, which should > never be forgot. > > In a future board composition I think a seat (maybe non voting) for > employees could avoid (or at least warn against) catastrophic failures in > management. > > > Vito > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
