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(a)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(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Chad <innocentkiller(a)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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