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@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@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@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@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.
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