As just announced, the Wikimedia Foundation does not have any executive director any more, until an ED is found (hopefully within 3-4 months). This raises some questions of organisation. To foster efficiency and channel communications, the board has agreed that the following staff members or contractants shall be reporting to the following people.
For all office/administrative issues, staff (Barbara, Danny...) will report to Carolyn Carolyn (operations) will report to Florence Sandy (communication) will report to Florence Brad (legal) will report to Florence Danny (non administrative tasks, eg grants, special projects etc...) will report to Erik Brion/Mark/Tim (tech) will report to Jan-Bart Delphine (chapters) will report to Oscar
Due to their background, Oscar and Michael (are and) will be very involved in financial and audit considerations. Jimbo is more focused on public relations and licenses discussions. Kat is spending time on various legal-related, licenses discussions and is in charge of an assignment not yet made public :-) (ahah! cabal!)
Florence Devouard Chair of Wikimedia Foundation
Links * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-February/027477.html (Announcement concerning the ED search firm) * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-January/027269.html (explanation of the differences between CEO, COO and Board) *http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-February/027478.html (Brad moving to GC job) * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-January/027268.html (Announcement of Carolyn becoming COO) * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-January/026515.html (4 wishes for year 2007... including reorganisation and financial considerations) * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-January/027171.html (Welcome to Sandy) * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-February/027455.html (Welcome to chapter coordinator)
Hoi, I wish the board strength and wisdom. Taking up these added tasks must be a burden given that there is already so much on your shoulders. I wish Kat fun fending off all those who will try to find out what the secret mission is that she and her cabal are embarking on.. Thanks, GerardN
Florence Devouard schreef:
As just announced, the Wikimedia Foundation does not have any executive director any more, until an ED is found (hopefully within 3-4 months). This raises some questions of organisation. To foster efficiency and channel communications, the board has agreed that the following staff members or contractants shall be reporting to the following people.
For all office/administrative issues, staff (Barbara, Danny...) will report to Carolyn Carolyn (operations) will report to Florence Sandy (communication) will report to Florence Brad (legal) will report to Florence Danny (non administrative tasks, eg grants, special projects etc...) will report to Erik Brion/Mark/Tim (tech) will report to Jan-Bart Delphine (chapters) will report to Oscar
Due to their background, Oscar and Michael (are and) will be very involved in financial and audit considerations. Jimbo is more focused on public relations and licenses discussions. Kat is spending time on various legal-related, licenses discussions and is in charge of an assignment not yet made public :-) (ahah! cabal!)
Florence Devouard Chair of Wikimedia Foundation
Links
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-February/027477.html (Announcement concerning the ED search firm)
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-January/027269.html (explanation of the differences between CEO, COO and Board)
*http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-February/027478.html (Brad moving to GC job)
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-January/027268.html (Announcement of Carolyn becoming COO)
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-January/026515.html (4 wishes for year 2007... including reorganisation and financial considerations)
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-January/027171.html (Welcome to Sandy)
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-February/027455.html (Welcome to chapter coordinator)
Florence Devouard wrote:
As just announced, the Wikimedia Foundation does not have any executive director any more, until an ED is found (hopefully within 3-4 months). This raises some questions of organisation. To foster efficiency and channel communications, the board has agreed that the following staff members or contractants shall be reporting to the following people.
For all office/administrative issues, staff (Barbara, Danny...) will report to Carolyn Carolyn (operations) will report to Florence Sandy (communication) will report to Florence Brad (legal) will report to Florence Danny (non administrative tasks, eg grants, special projects etc...) will report to Erik Brion/Mark/Tim (tech) will report to Jan-Bart Delphine (chapters) will report to Oscar
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Hello Florence,
I am wondering who Danny should report to ? Is it Erik or Carolyn or both ?
Also, Brion is the Chief Technical Officer, maybe all technical staff should report to him just like administrative staff reports to Carolyn ?
cheers,
On 2/4/07, Ashar Voultoiz hashar@altern.org wrote:
I am wondering who Danny should report to ? Is it Erik or Carolyn or both ?
If I may answer this, the way I read the announcement, Danny reports to Carolyn for office and administrative issues, and to Erik for his work on grants, special projects and other non-office things. Danny is effectively doing two jobs now!
On 04/02/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/4/07, Ashar Voultoiz hashar@altern.org wrote:
I am wondering who Danny should report to ? Is it Erik or Carolyn or both ?
If I may answer this, the way I read the announcement, Danny reports to Carolyn for office and administrative issues, and to Erik for his work on grants, special projects and other non-office things. Danny is effectively doing two jobs now!
I suppose that'll make a change down from what feels like four ...
- d.
On 2/4/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose that'll make a change down from what feels like four ...
Yes, apparently working the OFFICE is now one of the [[labours of Hercules]].
Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
Florence Devouard wrote:
As just announced, the Wikimedia Foundation does not have any executive director any more, until an ED is found (hopefully within 3-4 months). This raises some questions of organisation. To foster efficiency and channel communications, the board has agreed that the following staff members or contractants shall be reporting to the following people.
For all office/administrative issues, staff (Barbara, Danny...) will report to Carolyn Carolyn (operations) will report to Florence Sandy (communication) will report to Florence Brad (legal) will report to Florence Danny (non administrative tasks, eg grants, special projects etc...) will report to Erik Brion/Mark/Tim (tech) will report to Jan-Bart Delphine (chapters) will report to Oscar
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Hello Florence,
I am wondering who Danny should report to ? Is it Erik or Carolyn or both ?
Hi Stephen and David are correct. Danny is involved in two very different areas. So, for administrative/operations tasks, he reports to Carolyn, and for others to Erik. So, both.
Also, Brion is the Chief Technical Officer, maybe all technical staff should report to him just like administrative staff reports to Carolyn ?
I'll tell you three secrets, just do not repeat them. First, we are beginning to oil the wheels to find someone to be the new CTO in the long run. Second, Mark, Brion etc... pretty much manage their own business between themselves well. By large, Tim reports to Brion right now, and all is well. Third, Brion is not a report man... he is Brion. On the tech side, the most urgent things we can be facing in the next three months really, are much more related to hardware, hosting, network, insurance, contracts... in large part Mark realm (along with JeLuF, Domas, Rob etc...). Mark and Jan-Bart know each other, they can even meet pretty easily (dutch people are infesting the Foundation right now). I guess it would make no sense to add any type of layer or intermediaries between them (ie, Brion). I presume that a lot of their interactions will also be directly with Carolyn. In any cases, they seem to be happy, and as long as it works...
cheers,
ant
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I'll tell you three secrets, just do not repeat them.
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Thanks for sharing the secrets with us :o)
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Anthere wrote: [snip]
Second, Mark, Brion etc... pretty much manage their own business between themselves well. By large, Tim reports to Brion right now, and all is well. Third, Brion is not a report man... he is Brion. On the tech side, the most urgent things we can be facing in the next three months really, are much more related to hardware, hosting, network, insurance, contracts... in large part Mark realm (along with JeLuF, Domas, Rob etc...). Mark and Jan-Bart know each other, they can even meet pretty easily (dutch people are infesting the Foundation right now). I guess it would make no sense to add any type of layer or intermediaries between them (ie, Brion). I presume that a lot of their interactions will also be directly with Carolyn. In any cases, they seem to be happy, and as long as it works...
To summarize the tech situation:
* In theory I'm the lead, but we're a small team and generally operate internally by consensus agreement. In reality I'm lead programmer far more than I'm "CTO".
I happily defer to Mark or others on network & hardware issues where they know better, and we have little need for a strict reporting hierarchy at this time.
* We're going through Carolyn for operations issues (arranging any necessary purchase orders, ensuring that bills are paid, contracts/insurance dealt with etc)
Note that I'll be working from the main office from next month.
* Jan-Bart is our Board contact if and when needed.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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