On the other hand, having a member of the community with a good relationship with the trustees involved in day to day operations is of significant value in and of itself. Its possible it could create some difficulties (e.g. he now reports to someone who reports to the Board, so adjusting to that difference could be an issue) but I see no reason not to give Erik and the Board the benefit of the doubt in this situation. As long as they do a background check!
On Dec 18, 2007 1:03 PM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
I see what you're saying. At the same time, I'm wondering if it is legal for Erik to work within the United States. Nothing on the qualifications for a work visa page seems to jump out at me, unless I'm missing something.
http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1323.html
-Chad
On Dec 18, 2007 12:52 PM, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
--- 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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