[Foundation-l] WMF seeking to sub-lease office space?

[Geoffrey Plourde]

Its a serious charge that is difficult to prove. The publicly released financial statements are too general in nature to be useful. The only way to prove/disprove this allegation and head off others is for the Foundation to become more transparent. It is natural for people to come to assumptions when information is not available to them. The currently available financials are simply not transparent enough to prove what is going on. 




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From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2009 7:54:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] WMF seeking to sub-lease office space?

2009/9/5 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2009/9/5 Gregory Kohs <thekohser at gmail.com>:
>> > Which "accusations" do you speak of?
>>
>> "That's curious, considering they had "outgrown" space in January 2009,
>> such
>> that they needed to shuttle Ruth and Frank Stanton's money over to Wikia's
>> accounts receivable to expand their footprint."
>>
>> That is an accusation of illicit dealings for personal gain. It
>> doesn't matter than you didn't explicitly accuse them, no reasonable
>> person could interpret that sentence (in the context of your previous
>> comments) as anything else.
>
> Perhaps, but that part hasn't been disproven.

Nor has the existence of a teapot in orbit. We do not disprove
accusation, we prove them or shut the hell up.

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