I'm happy to write something up, as the most recent community-sourced hire, if my bosses and comms are okay with it :).
On 10 January 2012 21:59, Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 21:26, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Personal perspectives are perhaps not very suitable for the "official blog" (but may be),
Ah. OK. I confess I'm more of a Signpost reader than of the blog, so I hadn't thought of it having a particular style or code.
anyway engineering reports are being published regularly since a while and they're a very good way to know what's going on at least in the technology department, without having to read MiB of text.
Yes. To clarify, it's not that I feel a sense of "I don't know what they get up to in that office"... I'm sure most things I'd be interested to know I could find out with judicious searching. I'm thinking more along the lines of not just putting names to faces but also a greater insight into what their current working day is like and projects of note.
Maybe forget the blog and Signpost. If we go here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors
We see that some staff don't yet have pictures. I would respect the choice of anyone who didn't want a pic up but they do go a long way in helping someone retain a name in their mind. Also some of the names are wikified but clicking through doesn't take you to anything substantive in some cases. Other names are not wikified at all. Some of the job titles are wikified and clicking takes you through to the job spec, which is great... but not all have that.
So any work that could be done to standardise the page somewhat would be most welcome. And I would definitely welcome it if staff were to project a bit of their personality in some kind of statement of their own. It all adds to that sense of the Foundation being approachable folk working to help us volunteers.
What I'm calling for, basically, is efforts to retain that feeling that you knew the staff which was easy to achieve when numbers were so small and will naturally lessen as the organisation grows, but a lessening which can be mitigated to some degree.
Bodnotbod
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