WMF staff are certainly contributors within the technical spaces. There's no reason why they shouldn't be able to participate in the COC formation process (which I have unrelated concerns with...)
A lack of other community members participation is perhaps half on a lack of advertising, and half on a lack of interest.
Adrian Raddatz
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:12 PM, quiddity pandiculation@gmail.com wrote:
- The people in the WMF and the Affiliates are /part of/ of the
communities.
- Even the people without extensive years of volunteering, or those who
only started volunteering at the same time as they became professionally involved, are part of the communities.
- It is illogical for us to tell the people who take on highly-active
roles, that they are no longer able to lead.
- We (collectively) try to encourage the extremely capable volunteers to
apply for jobs, and for grants.
- If Wikimedia Cascadia becomes a well-funded chapter, and you were a
staffer of it, would you become ineligible to lead proposals that effect your area of activity?
-- quiddity
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Let me rephrase and elaborate on that point. Phabricator and MediaWiki aren't the WMF wiki. I think that WMF employees' proposals, comments, questions, and suggestions can be welcome for TCoC drafting. However, in terms of process leadership and in terms of proportion of input, I would like to see -- and I think that the proposal would be more likely to pass an RfC on adoption for the whole document -- community leadership of the process, and a greater proportion of community input.
Pine
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Erik Bernhardson < ebernhardson@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
A point I should make is that I think that Matthew and others made
some
good-faith efforts with the current draft. I would have proposed far
less
WMF involvement with the draft
One thing I just don't understand here, why should the people that participate in technical spaces more than most (because it's their job
to
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