[Foundation-l] Carolyn Doran

Justin Senseney jsensene at umd.edu
Fri Dec 14 04:21:10 UTC 2007


FYI - Also being developed at Wikinews:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Chief_Operating_Officer_of_Wikimedia_Foundation_was_convicted_felon

Justin

On Dec 13, 2007 11:06 PM, Jeremy Tobacman <tobacman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I presume the press coverage Nathan refers to is this article:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/wikimedia_coo_convicted_felon/
>
> - Jeremy
>
> 2007/12/14, Nathan Awrich <nawrich at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I think the Foundation owes the community a complete and detailed
> > explanation of the facts surrounding the pre-employment check, hiring
> > and resignation/dismissal of Ms. Carolyn Doran. The community assumes
> > that the Board operates in good faith, but that faith must be upheld
> > by the Board through disclosure of information material to the
> > community. And assuming that the Board believed that the community did
> > not need to be involved in this situation, surely the interview
> > between the Register and Mike Godwin alerted them to the fact that
> > press coverage was inevitable in the near future. If it were me, I
> > would have wanted to get out in front of that story.
> >
> > ~Nathan
> >
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