Just a personal testimonial also to emphasize Marc's point and not necessarily when I did a work for WMF as a contractor, my previous girlfriend got interesting in Wikimedia projects after she saw somethings I worked on my spare time as a volunteer. She even began to write at Wikimedia Brasil mailing list and outreach Wikimedia projects. ;)
In fact, she still does sometimes some outreach and have even participate of a Wikimedia meeting recently. (Well, better not say her opinion on Wikidramas, totally aligned with mine : )
Tom
2014-05-28 11:04 GMT-03:00 Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.org:
On 05/28/2014 08:59 AM, Fæ wrote:
A curiosity that only manifested itself shortly after the public announcement of your employment by the Foundation board.
In all fairness, Fæ, if my spouse had been hired as the leader of a very visible and significant business or nonprofit, I too would find myself interested in what it is, what its values are, and how it goes about things even if I had been previously unaware or uninterested in it.
So that Wil's interest manifested around the time Lila was announced as the next ED seems to me to be perfectly natural, even if I have expressed serious concerns about *how* that interest was expressed.
-- Marc
-- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org