[Foundation-l] Vice President?

[phoebe ayers]

Someday, I can only aspire to be a Vice President of Pencil Sharpeners :)

Sidenote: indeed, on our board we use the terminology Chair &
Vice-Chair, not president.

cheers,
phoebe

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Many organizations have dozens or hundreds of vice presidents, like Vice
> President of Vending Machines and Vice President of Pencil Sharpeners. It's
> not really analogous to President and Vice President of the U.S. for
> example, which are exclusive positions. Of course I agree that job titles
> are kind of silly, but whatever.
>
> Ryan Kaldari
>
>
> On 1/31/12 8:17 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Erik took on the temporary title "VP of Engineering and Product
>> Development"
>> after Danese left.[1] Just recently it was codified on wmfwiki.[2]
>>
>> I don't really think much of job titles anywhere, but it seems strange to
>> have a Vice President without having a President.[3] Mostly just noting
>> for
>> posterity.
>>
>> MZMcBride
>>
>> [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-June/054040.html
>> [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?diff=78986&oldid=78985
>> [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors
>>
>>
>>
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