[Foundation-l] Frieda Brioschi resigns from the Wikimedia Board of Trustees

[FloNight]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Frieda Brioschi <ubifrieda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> my delay in writing this email is one of the reason of my resignation.
> I decided to step down from the board for essentially two kinds of
> reasons: personal and related to the position.
> Personal: since July 07 (when I was elected) I changed first city then
> job, and my new job is very time consuming. I couldn't take part in
> the last two "physical" board meetings (one was during Wikimania!) and
> sometimes to IRC meeting too.
> A small advise to future candidate: please consider that a 3 days
> meeting often needs 2 additional days of travel..
> Related to the position: I have the strong sensation that I spent a
> lot of time in concluding nothing, as I wrote in my email to the
> board, I was totally unable to find my dimension and a way to
> cooperate with all the members.
> I still don't know which is exactely the role of a WMF board member:
> donation? budget? audit? I'm strongly interested in project, chapter..
> perhaps I was unavalaible when these points were in discussion.
>
> So.. I thought it was more honest leaving my seat to someone else.
>
> Frieda

Frieda,

Thank you for the thoughtful and honest explanation.

All the best,

Sydney