Jennifer,
I think what you really mean is that you want (1) for
yourself as
opposed to the movement in general to be personally involved in
the decision-making process,
I would be happy if the Foundation was doing anything to involve
the community in the process. We are constantly told to get involved,
but if the search process isn't open, how are we supposed to?
so that you can (2) promote your pet notions about
privacy,
back-doors in hardware and other opinons.
I plead guilty, I want privacy and all the other questions I raised to be
part of the CTO search process, but they are hardly my pet notions,
and again, I'd gladly abstain if the community was made part of this
process. There was one item on the list you could call my pet, since it
has been the source of 98% of my income for the past eight years, but
it wasn't either of the two you guessed. Here is enumerated list, in
hopes that this makes it easier.
Is the Foundation looking for a CTO who can help:
(1) reinforcing their privacy infrastructure;
(2) moving away from providing personally identifiable information
to the dozens of researchers worldwide under nondisclosure agreements;
(3) finding a fuzzing middle ground to provide approximate but non-
personally identyding readership log information;
(4) explore alternatives to staying with PHP long term;
(5) build a strategy to combat censorship in Turkey and China;
(6) support IPFS with more than just dumps;
(7) execute on the industry-wide Encrypted-SNI project with devoted
headcount and budget;
(8) commit to open source hardware, e.g.
www.opencompute.org servers;
(9) ramp up Community Wishlist implementation as long term
Foundation technology supporters wrap up or transition to support mode;
(10) fix tools that have fallen into disrepair (e.g., Categorder which sorts
the WP:BACKLOG categories by pageviews on enwiki)
(11) produce a Course Management System for Wikiversity;
(12) produce a pronunciation tutor for Wiktionary;
(13) remain competitive with other top-ten website compensation by
paying SF-livable salaries;
and what search criteria are they using to find candidates that can?
Best regards,
Jim
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 11:33 AM Jennifer Pryor-Summers
<jennifer.pryorsummers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Jim
I would like to comment on the search and
requirement
criteria. In particular, I'd like to know [...] I would love to know any of
this far more than anything about branding.
Yes, but what would you *do* with the answers to all those questions?
You're not on the search committee, so it seems that what you want is for
the WMF to answer questions from the 36 million or so account holders, and
get 36 million comments. That's useless to them and to us. I think what
you really mean is that you want (1) for yourself as opposed to the
movement in general to be personally involved in the decision-making
process, probably so that you can (2) promote your pet notions about
privacy, back-doors in hardware and other opinons. Perhaps you should try
standing for election to a community seat on the Board?
JPS
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