Pete,
I'm intentionally anonymizing communications that happened in private. But
yes, I agree that it would be best if there was public discussion about
this subject from people who are more directly involved in it. If that
needs to go through chain of command (up to Katherine if necessary) to
happen in public, I'm OK with that.
Communication in private happens routinely for legitimate purposes, and I
want people to feel okay with doing that, which is one reason why I
anonymize comments that I have heard that weren't explicitly cleared for
public distribution. On the other hand, I want to lean in the direction of
more public communication as well.
That's a long way of saying that your point is well taken.
Thanks,
Pine
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Pine, maybe so, but if that's what you're
going for, your best move might
be to privately urge the people who have talked to you to come forward
publicly -- rather than you sharing their words without attribution or
context.
The information that came through from your message is, "Pine asserts that
Wikimedia staff confide in him." That probably wasn't your intent, but I
agree with Keegan's characterization of it as gossip.
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Discussing an organization's strengths and
weaknesses, transparently,
should be the norm for how business is done. Keeping quiet about problems
is sometimes necessary, but transparency should be the norm.
Pine
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I agree that there can be a benefit to internal promotions in the
sense
> > that less onboarding is required. On
the other hand, sometimes a
fresh
> > perspective is helpful, and at least
one of the interim Cs has been
> > insistent that they want to return to their previous job.
> >
> > Also, while people are in interim roles, their departments are down a
> > person unless their previous positions are somehow backfilled,
perhaps
with
contractors. I have already heard from one
department that they are
feeling
the squeeze.
Pine
I'm not really comfortable with gossip here, whether about a Wikimedia
project or the WMF.
--
~Keegan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
This is my personal email address. Everything sent from this email
address
is in a personal capacity.
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