On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed in me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects.
Sincerely James Heilman
On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation.
I don't know the reason. . . anyway, good wishes.:)
On 29 December 2015 at 04:13, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed in me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects.
Sincerely James Heilman
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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Dr James, thank you for your work in Wikimedia governance (and for that matter, management so far.) I really hope a full, thoughtful, and defensible statement in support of his decision will be coming from the rest of the board shortly. I'm a little bit disturbed to see a respected community member who was elected with a significant mandate removed from the board without there being something like allegations of financial malfeasance, etc, involved. The Wikimedia Foundation board does (literally) directly control the projects, and does (literally) directly have the ability to appoint and dismiss board members at its will, but I would hope that such power would be exercised with extreme discretion, especially with regards to a community member generally as well-respected and with as solid judgement as Dr. James has.
--- Kevin Gorman
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:43 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed in me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects.
Sincerely James Heilman
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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This is not good. I suppose Board will give us an explanation of what happened, so we could discuss it here.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Kevin Gorman kgorman@gmail.com wrote:
Dr James, thank you for your work in Wikimedia governance (and for that matter, management so far.) I really hope a full, thoughtful, and defensible statement in support of his decision will be coming from the rest of the board shortly. I'm a little bit disturbed to see a respected community member who was elected with a significant mandate removed from the board without there being something like allegations of financial malfeasance, etc, involved. The Wikimedia Foundation board does (literally) directly control the projects, and does (literally) directly have the ability to appoint and dismiss board members at its will, but I would hope that such power would be exercised with extreme discretion, especially with regards to a community member generally as well-respected and with as solid judgement as Dr. James has.
Kevin Gorman
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:43 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed in me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects.
Sincerely James Heilman
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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Wut?
Il 28/12/2015 23:43, James Heilman ha scritto:
On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed in me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects.
Sincerely James Heilman
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:43 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed in me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects.
Sincerely James Heilman
James, this is disappointing. Can you say more about what happened?
Sarah
I join everyone else here in hoping we'll be hearing a very good reason for this. I understand it may not be possible (or wise) for Doc James to provide that, but it certainly shouldn't be done for simple differences of opinion. On Dec 28, 2015 4:17 PM, "SarahSV" sarahsv.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:43 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia
Foundation.
Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed
in
me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects.
Sincerely James Heilman
James, this is disappointing. Can you say more about what happened?
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Anyone who has worked with James on the projects will know how seriously committed he is to open knowledge and that he is held in the highest regard by the community for his achievements and character. Losing him from the WMF board is a severe blow for fellow volunteers. With James voted in as a trustee to rely on to ask the hard questions on governance, I thought that the endless cycle of "moving forward" rhetoric on delivering improvement and transparency now had some true substance behind it.
James, whatever went on behind this, always trust in your own judgement, focus on what really matters, and KBO.[1] The WMF has managed to publicly shoot the cat.
1. It was good enough for Churchill and a pinch of stoicism might be needed at this time.
Fae On 28 Dec 2015 23:17, "SarahSV" sarahsv.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:43 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia
Foundation.
Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed
in
me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects.
Sincerely James Heilman
James, this is disappointing. Can you say more about what happened?
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I hope that the WMF board and James are able to collaborate a bit further to give an explanation of the cause of this, and that the explanation given is to the mutual satisfaction of both the board and James.
I presume that the current notice of dismissal without explanation is not the explanation that pleases all those involved in this.
yours,
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:43 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed in me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects.
Sincerely James Heilman
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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Surely there must be a board resolution that needs to be pubished regarding this? On 29 Dec 2015 9:44 am, "James Heilman" jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed in me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects.
Sincerely James Heilman
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:17 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Surely there must be a board resolution that needs to be pubished regarding this?
It was published. It contains no information beyond the OP.
Nod. Found it. :/
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:James_Heilman_Removal On 29 Dec 2015 1:21 pm, "Nathan" nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:17 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Surely there must be a board resolution that needs to be pubished
regarding
this?
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
It was published. It contains no information beyond the OP.
Well, it contains a bit more -- it clarifies that his removal also ends his terms on various committees, and -- rather significant, I think -- it states the names of which Trustees voted which way. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:James_Heilman_Removal
-Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
This is an unprecedented and very serious situation. We wait for good reasons from the Board to decide for this extreme measure.
Vini
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
It was published. It contains no information beyond the OP.
Well, it contains a bit more -- it clarifies that his removal also ends his terms on various committees, and -- rather significant, I think -- it states the names of which Trustees voted which way. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:James_Heilman_Removal
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