On 2016-02-26 21:20, Pete Forsyth wrote:
All:
Now that Wikimedia's Executive Director is leaving, a central point of
contention has been resolved. But as many have said, the "real work" of
getting back on track comes next. I have been thinking about what the
next
specific steps should be, and I have some suggestions here. I present
these
points very directly, in order to be concise and in the hopes of
hearing
the perspectives of others. In other words -- I think this is a good
list,
but I'm open to persuasion -- as I think we all are in this community.
I
look forward to hearing from others who take a broad view of where this
movement and organization are, and where we need to go. And of course,
much
of what I say below is inspired by previous messages from people like
Brion, Delphine, Asaf, Milos, etc. Anyhow, on to some specifics
suggestions:
Hi Pete,
thanks for excellent suggestions, which hopefully will give us all food
for thought.
I was searching your mail for the keyword "transparency" and did not
find a single usage. I think this is an important point, which should
possibly be considered as #6. Many of our troubles from the last year
arose because people have acted untransparently. Whereas it is clear
that some issues are privacy sensitive, and full disclosure would not be
possible, we should agree that for every important decision it should be
clear who made it, what was the motivation, and preferably important
stkeholders (including the community) should have been contacted before
the decision has been made, not after that.
Cheers
Yaroslav