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=2165185&oldid=2156716 - 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@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