[Foundation-l] Hiring of Interim Executive Director and Legal Counsel

[Delirium]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Can you cite examples?
>
> It is my belief that the board and other people deeply involved in the
> foundation are currently mismanaging their time by spending far too
> much of it being concerned with the potential reaction of every random
> non-productive armchair expert who inevitably crops up to call foul on
> any possible idea.
>
> It's a lot easier to speculate on what we could and should do than to
> actually do it... and it's a lot easier to naysay than to act.  It's
> nearly impossible to find a solution to anything complex without at
> least a few people writing kiloword screeds on the great evil of the
> solution. We must stop allowing ourselves to be victimized by people
> whose only skills are complaint and speculation and whose only assets
> are time and a desire to hear themselves talk.
>   
Can you cite examples?

Many of the people complaining on this list about board management are 
precisely the same people who have been actually doing things to advance 
our projects.  Erik Moeller is to a large extent responsible for the 
existence and organization of both Wikinews and the Wikimedia Commons.  
Tim Starling is one of the major MediaWiki developers.  And so on.

Does your comment have any substance besides a gratuitous and unfounded 
personal attack on people you happen to disagree with?

-Mark