Delirium wrote:
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
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Slightly different, but let me take the opportunity to remind two links
* http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Current_events * http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Messages
Ant