sfmammamia writes:
A bit of a mystery -- in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle, page E-8, there's an ad for the Wikimedia Foundation Head of Communications position. This ad does not appear online, at least I could not find a companion posting, either on the foundation site or on Yahoo (the Chronicle's online ad partner). Perhaps once the staff is back from the Labor Day holiday there will be clarification? Or did I just miss something?
Hi, sfmammamia. Here's the nutshell answer to your question: because the Wikimedia Foundation is an international organization that hires staff from around the world and yet must with all relevant US employment law, we sometimes need to adhere to specific legal and administrative requirements. In other words, sometimes we must run employment ads, such as the posting of this position, in a newspaper like the SF Chronicle or elsewhere.
This shouldn't be interpreted as a sign of any shakeup. Jay, for example, is not leaving the Wikimedia Foundation -- he's doing a great job, and we expect and hope he will stay with us, doing the same great work, for a long time.
--Mike Godwin General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org wrote:
sfmammamia writes:
A bit of a mystery -- in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle, page E-8, there's an ad for the Wikimedia Foundation Head of Communications position. This
ad
does not appear online, at least I could not find a companion posting, either on the foundation site or on Yahoo (the Chronicle's online ad partner). Perhaps once the staff is back from the Labor Day holiday there will be clarification? Or did I just miss something?
Hi, sfmammamia. Here's the nutshell answer to your question: because the Wikimedia Foundation is an international organization that hires staff from around the world and yet must with all relevant US employment law, we sometimes need to adhere to specific legal and administrative requirements. In other words, sometimes we must run employment ads, such as the posting of this position, in a newspaper like the SF Chronicle or elsewhere.
This shouldn't be interpreted as a sign of any shakeup. Jay, for example, is not leaving the Wikimedia Foundation -- he's doing a great job, and we expect and hope he will stay with us, doing the same great work, for a long time.
--Mike Godwin General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation
I don't know what these laws are, but my first guess is that the foundation doesn't plan to actually hire anyone who responds to the ad, but must post the ad in order to conform to equal opportunity employment laws?
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
I don't know what these laws are, but my first guess is that the foundation doesn't plan to actually hire anyone who responds to the ad, but must post the ad in order to conform to equal opportunity employment laws?
I assume Jay Walsh isn't a US citizen (Canadian?), so they put in the ad in order to pretend that they're looking for a US citizen to fill the position.
2009/9/8 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
I don't know what these laws are, but my first guess is that the foundation doesn't plan to actually hire anyone who responds to the ad, but must post the ad in order to conform to equal opportunity employment laws?
I assume Jay Walsh isn't a US citizen (Canadian?), so they put in the ad in order to pretend that they're looking for a US citizen to fill the position.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:JayWalsh says he has worked a lot in Canada, so there is a very good chance that he is Canadian.
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