I echo your sentiments, Tom. Losing any of the staff who are departing is a blow.
As for IT support, the 2014 Activity Plan says: "The development budget seeks to support the day to day system administration of the Chapter’s IT infrastructure, including the hosting of its community and internal wikis, databases, email accounts and so on. This is vital to ensure as a movement entity we are managing data and donations in a secure and professional way. In addition, it seeks to solicit, develop and deliver community generated ideas for software projects that will support content production or improvement." - https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2014_Activity_Plan#Development_budget Sadly there's no 2015 Activity Plan to guide us, but I'd be surprised if we could decide to drop the commitments outlined above. Of course, it's always possible the Board is counting on the third Project Coordinator's "Excellent software skills, including word-processing, spreadsheets, event management programmes, and CRM databases" to plug that gap. At £25K-£28K, full-time in Central London, I won't be holding my breath for that to happen. -- Rexx On 14 May 2015 at 00:03, Thomas Morton <morton.tho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Just had a look through the proposals; a reasonable start, but a lot to > do. I'm not totally impressed with D'arcys plan overall, and I am concerned > a lot of effort has been expended on this plan, at the expense of > day-to-day operations of the. Charity (critical for a successful > transitional role, typical of a downsizer CEO). There may be more to the > plan for the future that has yet to be revealed (the process has been too > non-transparent to date). > > Very narrowed focus, but on things the charity does well, so that's nice. > The lack of education is fairly concerning, Toni was an important asset. > > Losing Kat is a huge blow. > > Tom > On 13 May 2015 23:54, "Thomas Morton" <morton.tho...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> FWIW I've had no communication about whether the charity wishes to retain >> my services as a contractor. So your guess is as good as mine :) >> >> Tom >> On 13 May 2015 22:58, "Michael Peel" <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> > The staff page [2] will be updated to reflect the new staffing over >>> the next two weeks. >>> > [2] https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Staff >>> >>> The page seems to be in the process of being updated, see: >>> https://wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Staff&diff=65842&oldid=63946 >>> >>> It sounds like Katherine Bavage, Toni Sant, Katie Chan, Jonathan Cardy >>> and Fabian Tompsett have been let go, which is really sad news. :-( >>> >>> (Also: Davina Johnson seems to have become a member of staff rather than >>> a contractor? It's not clear what's happened with the tech contractors: >>> they seem to have been removed from the page with no clear answer on their >>> future role...) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mike >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia UK mailing list >>> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >>> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >
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