On Dec 30, 2007 8:05 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 12/30/07, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote
And you did not reject it because of your previous commitment to a six-month waiting period, which was voted on unanimously by the Board just 2 and a half weeks earlier. (Kat voted for six months for Board-->Staff, but seems to have rejected Staff-->Board).
I see no reason why any decision for transitions to Board or Staff should not be made on its merits until a specific policy governing such transitions in place. We're in the middle of a relocation and the setup of a new office, and part of Sue's desire to bring me in is to have me help with the orientation of new staff: These goals would be impeded by waiting for 6 months to join.
We are not talking about a complete restriction of such transitions, after all, only about a delay; if the discussion had focused on eliminating even the possibility of Board members joining the staff or vice versa, it would be much more problematic.
OK, but you're not planning on waiting six months to become deputy director, are you?
Your position has changed, right? If so, I don't have a problem with that, as I think it's a bad policy proposal to begin with, as you have now seen first hand. And putting it into the bylaws will make such a policy even more problematic.