Erik Zachte wrote:
Michael Snow
As Anthere has alluded to, some of the results
still need to be
organized, discussed further, and agreements reached. The board retreat
did not decide every course of action for the Wikimedia Foundation for
all time. Much more will be shared and discussed with various people in
various forums as we go forward. But we cannot recreate the entire
retreat for everyone who wasn't present, or produce a three-day-long
video for you to watch it all unfold.
Michael, you seem to say that I and maybe others are overasking.
Others more than just you, Erik, and I chose not to respond to your
message directly because I didn't want to single you out. But I was a
little disappointed to see people responding to Oscar's effort in
creating his report by commenting that it "says nothing" and in other
ways calling it inadequate.
What I did plead for was to share analysis,
conclusions, priority lists, in
short structured and condensated results, like SWOT and priority lists are
meant to be, so that others can be informed and provide feedback before
these are turned into decisions.
This is understandable, like Anthere I'm mostly asking for a little more
patience, as much in people's tone as in whether they have additional
requests or not. Most of the important conclusions were already in
Oscar's report. The analysis that went into it, Anthere has now posted
the SWOT list, and some of the rest we may be able to put together and
share as well. A few specific things, especially dealing with legal
concerns, need to be kept confidential.
Also, not everything we discussed was necessarily finalized, even with
respect to the small group that was present. Three days was good, but
hardly enough to tie up every loose end in such a very loosely
structured organization. For example, we worked on drafting a formal
vision and mission statement, but still had some wording issues to deal
with. I suggested that those be put forward for adoption by the
community in a referendum, and I'm looking forward to Board releasing
them in their final form.
--Michael Snow