[Foundation-l] Fwd: Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

[Lodewijk]

Hi John,

would it perhaps be more effective to send these questions to the audit
committee, whose role it is (as far as I can tell) to control this kind of
issues? They also have the authority to give relevant advices where
necessary.

Best,

Lodewijk

2010/10/12 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:10 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12 October 2010 00:00, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The following message was rejected by moderators, but I think it is
> >> worth noting on this list.
> >>
> >> Whether 'we' like it or not, Gregory Kohs is asking probing questions
> >> and ignoring him is not making him go away; quite the contrary
> >> actually.
> >>
> >> http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/gregory-kohs
> >
> > Paying attention to him isn't helping either. We are not short of
> > people to ask probing questions/
>
> Nobody else asked these questions.
>
> Did Philippe Beaudette work for Q2 Consulting, or is Greg Kohs wrong?
> Was this contract more than USD$5,000?
> If so, I assume that this contract falls under the Purchasing &
> Disbursements policy, and needed to be signed by Executive Director or
> the Deputy Director plus the CFOO.
> Were other firms considered by whoever signed this?
> Does WMF have a policy which sets some parameters around when
> contracts must be competitively sourced?  If not, they should.  I
> don't mind if a $5,000 contract isn't competitively sourced, but I
> would be disturbed if it was a $20,000 contract.
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Purchasing_%26_Disbursements_Policy
>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Gregory Kohs <thekohser at gmail.com>
> >> Date: Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:20 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)
> >> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, neither Philippe Beaudette nor Jay Walsh would respond
> >> to the question about competitive bidding for this important study of
> >> WMF donors, so the article in Examiner.com ran without their comment.
> >
> > Examiner.com is Gregory Kohs self publishing. He gets a share of the
> > ad revenue on the articles he publishes so of course he is going to
> > want to post them to this list.
>
> Greg wouldn't have a story if someone at WMF had answered the questions
> here.
>
> >> (Note, according to Alexa.com, Examiner receives more Internet reach
> >> than Business Week, Time Magazine, or CBS News.)
> >
> > Or to put it another way a bunch of sites unlikely to game their alexa
> rank.
>
> How would Examiner.com do that?  Do they do that?
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
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