Erik Moeller wrote:
That's what happened. I argued on our
communications mailing list that
a basic announcement of this type would be helpful (also for people
who were in touch with Carolyn and now needed someone else to follow
up with), but the rough consensus was against. IMHO there's a middle
ground between "going into detail on every staff issue" and "not
informing the community about staff changes": quick updates (perhaps
in a smaller "notes" section on the WMF website). We'll see, maybe
next time.
A "notes" section or something like that seems reasonable. It'd be
nice
if there were some place where brief updates on Foundation issues were
put, where someone interested could check without it being necessary to
give the undue weight of a whole Official Mailing List Announcement to
them. Things other than personnel announcements could go there as well,
like "Erik met with [organization X] this weekend to talk about future
cooperation", etc. My university has a weekly email newsletter with
those sorts of 1-line updates (including all personnel changes, even of
lower-level staff), which seems to work moderately well.
-Mark