[Foundation-l] Fundraising & Networking updates

[Thomas Dalton]

On 09/01/2008, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 1/9/08, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What's your point? That it was an official decision? That doesn't make
> > it right...
>
> You can read about the reasoning in that thread. One big factor was
> certainly the heavy operational involvement of the Board during the
> phase in which WMF did not have an Executive Director, which meant a
> lot more confidential & personal details were discussed in Board
> meetings. It appears that the practice has been recently revised
> again, with a (redacted) version of the last minutes I prepared posted
> on the Foundation website:
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/October_6-7%2C_2007

Well, that's certainly a good step. I wonder why there wasn't an
announcement... (at least, there wasn't one I saw).