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