Bodhisattwa and Nathan,
If I imagine myself in James' shoes, I would be thinking a lot right now about: * What are my legal obligations around what I may or may not say * What are the difficult-to-predict consequences to WMF, to Wikimedia, and/or to oneself of saying various things * What obligation I have to speak, when no charge against me has been made (at least publicly), and when my term as a trustee is now over
Speaking for myself, if I were James, I would not be rushing into any public statement.
The people we need most to hear from right now are the eight people who made a mysterious decision. The two people who opposed the decision might or might have interesting responses -- I too am curious to hear what they will say. But it's the majority and/or chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board we need most to hear from.
-Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Doc,
The community wants to know about what happened. I think, you need to talk about this.
Regards, Bodhisattwa On 29 Dec 2015 07:25, "Nathan" nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 8:39 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
As Patricio stated the "Board has a responsibility to ... ensure that
the
Board functions with *mutual confidence*"
My fellow trustees need no reason beyond lack of trust in me to justify
my
removal. No reason beyond that is needed per our board by laws.
There was not any COI or legal impropriety on my part. I have done
what I
believe is in the best interest of our movement. I hope Patricio and I
can
work together to provide greater explanation in the coming days.
-- James Heilman
Why be cute about it, then? Just say what happened and leave the games to others. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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