On 6/1/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Right. I have one job for you. I forwarded on checkuser list yesterday an email of someone complaining of misuse of checkuser on fi. I do not have the time to study the case. You are in charge of exploring the issue, clarify if there was blantant abuse (in this case, please ask us to remove the status) or mostly ignorance (in that case, please inform the checkuser). Do you accept the job ?
I'll look into it. Note that I lack much insight into fi policy or events, and as I cannot read Finnish, cannot examine their project pages to meaningfully determine if CheckUser was used inappropriately there. To whom may I refer questions of that nature?
If you ever have anything else of this or any other nature which you think I might be able to help with, please feel free to email me *directly* (or chat with me on IRC). I do not reliably read the public mailing lists; the signal-to-noise ratio is too low on the public lists and my free time too limited. I guarantee that any mail addressed directly to me will be read within 24 hours unless I am ill or traveling.
Interesting question. Is the job of a board member
- define the strategy of the Foundation in the long run
- manage everyday operations of the organisation
- focus on human management of volunteers
According to books, it is 1. According to reality, it is 2. According to wishes, is it 3 ?
The proper duty of the board is to steer the organization, that is, item 1 above. Item 2 should be handled by the paid professional staff of the foundation, but the Board has been reluctant to date to hire paid professional staff, and so has to do those items in lieu of having them done by that staff. This is one of the major mistakes that the Board has made to date, and until they correct it they will forever be struggling to deal with matters they should not have to deal with anyway. Item 3 falls within the scope of "managing everyday operations" and should also be handled either by paid professional staff or a volunteer selected by and managed by the paid professional staff.
I have no intention of suggesting that the Board should be doing more than it is doing.
Let me see... I need
- someone with good knowledge of cell phones to help us figure what we
could do with wikipedia and cell phone (technical description). Able to answer all emails on OTRS of cell-phone people proposing various partnership.
Not an area I know much about.
- Someone with good graphical skills to improve the look of a CD for
kids 7-13. And make the external jacket. Speaking french will be a bonus.
My graphics arts skills are about as good as my French.
- Someone to clean up and rearrange all pages on meta related to the
Foundation. Good english skills required as well as knowledge of the Foundation structure
I find the current structure confusing (at least once one gets beyond the Board itself), and freely admit that I do not understand it. On the other hand, my English skills are reasonably good.
- Someone to update various pages on the foundation website. To check
the discrepancies between the english version and the other languages version. To contact the various editors responsiable of this version to tell them about the discrepancies. Require : access to WMF site and good communication skills.
I lack the requisite access to the Foundation site, and being monolingual cannot help much with reconciliations of translations.
- A baby-sitter at Wikimania for my baby. Skills : knowledge of kids.
Plump preferred. Male, female, trans welcome. Date and location : early august in Boston.
If I go to Wikimania at all, I suspect I will be going to attend events and actually try to accomplish something productive. And if I wanted to watch a child while doing this, it would be my own. Sorry.
- A lawyer or legal counselling to fix broken contracts received on
OTRS. Skills required : patience and availability.
Not a lawyer (althougb not legally clueless), nor do I understand what you mean by "fixing broken contracts received on OTRS".
- Checkuser issue : it seems the privacy policy, the checkuser policy
are not making everyone happy. I am looking for someone to review both and make new proposals. Additional jobs : doing stats of useage. Asking Brion to add a system to allow easier consulting. Skills : tough skin.
Please write me privately about this.
- OTRS assistant : job, improve the spam filter. OR, clean up the board
queue.
I have no access to the board queue, although I've been working OTRS for several months now. The spam filter is a technical issue that I don't know much about (the spam filter I use at work is a commercial product sold by Sophos and I don't know much about how it works, just how to make it work, and I'm not knowledgeable of the solution being used now). I freely admit that my open-source technical skills are rusty.
- Fundraising assistant : someone to help Mav to write a resolution
allowing the creation of that committee. Then, help to make a GREAT fundraising before summer. Skills : being creative with good communication ability. Urgent job.
Not an area I'm good at.
- Business development : I need someone to help figuring out how much
are trademarks are worth. Example : if we make a dvd, how much to ask per item. If we make a board game : how much to ask per item.
I have past experience in this area. Write me privately.
- Also in business development. I need someone to collect the names
and addresses of all mirrors (in all languages) and to contact them one by one to propose them a live feed; Will require to contact translators to fix languages templates. Should get a tech description from Brion. Skills and various : should have tech knowledge and OTRS access. Multilingual preferred.
Write me privately about this one, too.
Kelly