"Jethro" On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 8:15 PM, you wrote:
> Well, folks are free to ignore invitations to comment; there are indeed a > lot of discussion notices for various matters, so I don't blame them if > they world rather volunteer their time in other places. > > But they cannot then also argue that they didn't know about it. If people > want to know what's going on in our projects, it's their responsibility to > follow places where announcements are posted and read them. > > - Chris > Really? As a Community Organiser within the Community Engagement part of the Foundation, do you not believe that the Foundation has some kind of responsibility too? Perhaps the Foundation, with its tens of millions of dollars and hundereds of staff, and its ownership and control of the means of communcation, might consider whether it can organise its engagement with a disparate community on a more sophisticated basis than telling the volunteers that it's their responsbility to know how to engage effectively with the Foundation? Let me ask to to reread your comments from the point of view of a volunteer whose work builds the projects and ask yourself whether the attitude embodied in your comment is not just ever so slightly sub-optimal? Are you completely satsifed that there is nothing at all that the Foundation could or should do to improve the engagement it has with the community? "Rogol" _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
