[Foundation-l] [Announcement] Welcome to our two new board members

[Chad]

My mistake, I was under the impression it was a COI issue.

-Chad

On Feb 13, 2008 4:39 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chad: Nobody's complaining it is a COI. Far from it. I think people
> are expressing regret and concern that the quality of the Signpost may
> decrease without his full attention, while at the same time
> acknowledging that the board is a higher duty.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Feb 13, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Chad wrote:
>
> > In the case of the Signpost, I would generally say no. To be
> > perfectly honest,
> > I think a "possible COI" between board membership and enwiki's
> > community
> > newspaper is just grasping at straws and looking for a reason to
> > oppose someone.
> >
> > But that's just me.
> >
> > -Chad
> >
> > On Feb 13, 2008 4:05 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Hoi,
> >> I do not know about Signpost .. Google is my friend :) Does it make
> >> much
> >> difference what a board member does on a project ? Even if it is the
> >> en.wikipedia ??
> >> Thanks,
> >>    GerardM
> >>
> >>
> >> On Feb 13, 2008 9:53 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Feb 13, 2008 12:44 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 13/02/2008, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I do have one question though.  In previous elections there has
> >>>>> been a
> >>>>> concern that being on the Board and writing for the Signpost
> >>> represented
> >>>> a
> >>>>> conflict of interest.  I believe Michael said previously that he
> >>>>> would
> >>>> scale
> >>>>> back/discontinue his Signpost involvement if elected to the
> >>>>> Board.  I
> >>> am
> >>>>> curious if that is still his plan?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hasn't he pretty much handed it over to others already? The
> >>>> Signpost
> >>>> doesn't rely on him at all.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> He isn't the lead editor, as he was in the past, but he still is
> >>> the lead
> >>> author on about 1 article per week.
> >>>
> >>> -Robert Rohde
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