Jennifer,
I think what you really mean is that you want (1) for yourself as opposed to the movement in general to be personally involved in the decision-making process,
I would be happy if the Foundation was doing anything to involve the community in the process. We are constantly told to get involved, but if the search process isn't open, how are we supposed to?
so that you can (2) promote your pet notions about privacy, back-doors in hardware and other opinons.
I plead guilty, I want privacy and all the other questions I raised to be part of the CTO search process, but they are hardly my pet notions, and again, I'd gladly abstain if the community was made part of this process. There was one item on the list you could call my pet, since it has been the source of 98% of my income for the past eight years, but it wasn't either of the two you guessed. Here is enumerated list, in hopes that this makes it easier.
Is the Foundation looking for a CTO who can help:
(1) reinforcing their privacy infrastructure;
(2) moving away from providing personally identifiable information to the dozens of researchers worldwide under nondisclosure agreements;
(3) finding a fuzzing middle ground to provide approximate but non- personally identyding readership log information;
(4) explore alternatives to staying with PHP long term;
(5) build a strategy to combat censorship in Turkey and China;
(6) support IPFS with more than just dumps;
(7) execute on the industry-wide Encrypted-SNI project with devoted headcount and budget;
(8) commit to open source hardware, e.g. www.opencompute.org servers;
(9) ramp up Community Wishlist implementation as long term Foundation technology supporters wrap up or transition to support mode;
(10) fix tools that have fallen into disrepair (e.g., Categorder which sorts the WP:BACKLOG categories by pageviews on enwiki)
(11) produce a Course Management System for Wikiversity;
(12) produce a pronunciation tutor for Wiktionary;
(13) remain competitive with other top-ten website compensation by paying SF-livable salaries;
and what search criteria are they using to find candidates that can?
Best regards, Jim
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 11:33 AM Jennifer Pryor-Summers jennifer.pryorsummers@gmail.com wrote:
Jim
I would like to comment on the search and requirement criteria. In particular, I'd like to know [...] I would love to know any of this far more than anything about branding.
Yes, but what would you *do* with the answers to all those questions? You're not on the search committee, so it seems that what you want is for the WMF to answer questions from the 36 million or so account holders, and get 36 million comments. That's useless to them and to us. I think what you really mean is that you want (1) for yourself as opposed to the movement in general to be personally involved in the decision-making process, probably so that you can (2) promote your pet notions about privacy, back-doors in hardware and other opinons. Perhaps you should try standing for election to a community seat on the Board?
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