[WikiEN-l] What's going on? - Inquiry 2

[Delirium]

Erik Moeller wrote:
> That's what happened. I argued on our communications mailing list that
> a basic announcement of this type would be helpful (also for people
> who were in touch with Carolyn and now needed someone else to follow
> up with), but the rough consensus was against.  IMHO there's a middle
> ground between "going into detail on every staff issue" and "not
> informing the community about staff changes": quick updates (perhaps
> in a smaller "notes" section on the WMF website). We'll see, maybe
> next time.
>   
A "notes" section or something like that seems reasonable. It'd be nice 
if there were some place where brief updates on Foundation issues were 
put, where someone interested could check without it being necessary to 
give the undue weight of a whole Official Mailing List Announcement to 
them. Things other than personnel announcements could go there as well, 
like "Erik met with [organization X] this weekend to talk about future 
cooperation", etc. My university has a weekly email newsletter with 
those sorts of 1-line updates (including all personnel changes, even of 
lower-level staff), which seems to work moderately well.

-Mark