Birgitte SB wrote:
I cannot agree with you on this point. Contracts
must
be with the Foundation if they want the WMF's name
attached to it. If Kenniset was willing to give the
money to anyone willing to make it happen (Wikimedia
or otherwise), I imagine you would have already worked
it out.
Kennisnet contacted me at the time, and I recommended that they not fund
it until a proper proposal was in place. I would repeat that
recommendation today, under the same circumstances, and for the same
reasons.
With regards to the rest of you email. The Board is
going to hire an interim executive director.
Hopefully it will be soon. This shows me that the
Board is addressing your corncerns about their
efficiency.
In this particular case, the lack of efficiency was not from the WMF
board. We were presented with no proper proposal but instead a set of
very insistent demands that we tell Kennisnet "yes" within a day or two,
to a project which had not been explained, with a budget which was not
explained, etc.
I make no apologies for saying no to that kind of nonsense, whether from
Erik or Gerard or anyone else, no matter how much I may like and trust them.
--Jimbo