Tim Starling wrote:
Patrick, Brad wrote:
I'm the lawyer for the Foundation. I represent Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. I answer to the Board.
You are *not* authorized to speak for the Foundation.
Lawyer or ex-lawyer? I heard a rumour that your term had ended.
Brad is still part of the Wikimedia Foundation's legal team. However, he has obligations to paying clients and cannot afford to devote all of his time to pro bono work for Wikimedia. That seems to have been garbled into the notion that he's gone altogether, which is not the case.
In this situation, he was simply reiterating a position on behalf of his client, one that had already been communicated privately to Waerth. I trust he will graciously receive Waerth's apology and we need not air this matter further. If the prospects for collaboration with this organization in Thailand seem promising, hopefully Waerth can get them in touch with the Special Projects committee to work out the details.
--Michael Snow
In this situation, he was simply reiterating a position on behalf of his client, one that had already been communicated privately to Waerth.
Really ???? Can someone resend that private communication that I should have received than. I for one have never received this. Unless you mean a mail earlier today by Brad ..... I didn't read it that way. Anyway the fact that people do not *assume good faith* while I have done these kind of things before are really disappointing me. I have always taken great care. Start reading Dutch and listen to my radiointerviews and read my newspaperintervieuws than come back and make assumptions. Just because they haven't been done in the Anglosaxon speech, and I am not a native speaker of the imperialistic lingo doesn't mean that I am some backward hick who needs a nanny on every step that he takes.
I trust he will graciously receive Waerth's apology and we need not air this matter further. If the prospects for collaboration with this organization in Thailand seem promising, hopefully Waerth can get them in touch with the Special Projects committee to work out the details.
Delivering them to a selfappointed wikibureaucracy not recognized by the community? We will see, in Asia it is all about face, if I have the slightest feeling I could loose face with contacts that I have been working on for a long time if someone not familiair with Thai culture and Thai sensitivities takes over I will rather save my own face.
Learn to have faith all selfappointed bureaucrats. Just because I do no life in Europe/North America doesn't mean I am not worthy.
Your pile of trash, Waerth/Walter
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