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-
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