--- Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
Allow me to be the first to say "What the hell?" Am I the only one who is absolutely outraged by this? We hear Erik call for transparency and openness, yet he gets hired for a position there was no announcement about? I call BS.
-Chad H.
While "outraged" is rather strong, I am also surprised by the situation considering the previous discussion about the problematic conflict in interest that would arise if a board member were to be hired by WMF immediately after their departure. [1] I suppose the exact nature of Erik's hire shows that such discussions on this mailing rather than being taken to heart as feedback from the community about the spirit of WMF's operations are instead being used as an outline for how to game the community. After all Erik was not hired by *the board* So I suppose all these previously expressed objections just don't apply in this case ;)
Birgitte SB
[1]Emails agreeing that an immediate hire of a former board member could be a problematic conflict of interest and supporting the adoption of some kind of guidelines to guard against this http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-July/031814.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-July/031814.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-July/031846.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-July/031867.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-July/031908.html
Sole email disagreeing this kind of hiring would be problematic http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-July/031862.html
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