The idea of a non-voting seat for a non C-level employee is something that I could support.
Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Vi to vituzzu.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
2016-02-25 23:34 GMT+01:00 Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com:
I stopped responding to other emails because the significance of this moment is so large, that we have now we didn't have since the beginnings of Wikipedia.
We've got the chance to rebuild the movement.
I was about to write something like this, lots of ideas are arising but I fear most of will be lost in confusion.
You proved to be capable. Last couple of weeks I read many insightful emails from you, WMF employees -- some of them I didn't know at all. I heard thoughts I've never heard before on this list. They've been born in pain and you mustn't lose them.
Now you have the opportunity to lead *the* change. You are not anymore just the most organized part of the movement, you've just articulated yourself as capable to make the change you want to.
Working at WMF implies two kind of expectations: ...money! (Job -> salary, simply!) but also a lot of moral/ethical expectations. What went wrong with a stricter management were those expectations being frustrated. There's a certain turnover between the volunteers and the paid staff, which should never be forgot.
In a future board composition I think a seat (maybe non voting) for employees could avoid (or at least warn against) catastrophic failures in management.
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