On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:38 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
You are a long time community member, you were working
as Wikimedia
Foundation paid contractor for some time, does that mean all the volunteer
work you would have done before/after or during being a full time and paid
staff of Foundation cease to have any value ?
Err... I have no idea who or what implied that. I don't think anyone said
anything to that effect so far. Just said volunteer and staff work is
separate, not that it goes away or one negates the other. I completely
agreed with Ashwin on the need for better demarcation.
Here's some example-
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Theo_(WMF) - my old contractor
account- read the disclaimer
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ATheo10011&diff=21651…
- my volunteer account at the time- read the disclaimer/announcement
Shijus's staff account -http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju and
volunteer account -
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shijualex
Subha's staff account
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Subha_WMF and
volunteer accoun t-
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish
They all have disclaimers, and explanation that this work is separate from
staff work. It's a pretty clean and simple staff policy, that I have
discussed with Philippe in the past.
This might be harder to do in offline work, but there should be some
attempt at demarcation like on-wiki. Their volunteer work and standing will
never go away, no one remotely suggested that. Just that, like on-wiki,
there should be better communication about which is which, nothing more.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Errm Theo,
Do remember that the India TRUST is DIFFERENT form the Chapter. It is from
the WMF side and has absolutely NO relation with the Chapter.
lol I know Srikanth. My question was about its current legal status. Is it
independent? different or same as the chapter?
Regards
Theo