on 6/25/11 2:18 PM, Milos Rancic at mill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 06/25/2011 07:35 PM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: >> To clarify my position, I found the procedure as designed for handling >> appointed seats to be inherently unworkable. I don't think the procedures >> could have been followed during my service on the committee given the >> resources and time available. I imagine idealists will disagree with that >> assessment, but I feel energy is best directed to revising the by-laws for a >> more pragmatic process. > > My general position is that Wikimedian community is diverse enough to > fill expert seats from itself. In two years Language committee has found > four linguists inside of the community, one of them at the most relevant > job position for our work, one of them top class linguist. And there are > not a lot of linguists around Wikimedia projects. (Yes, there are some, > but not a lot.) > > I am sure that we could find enough lawyers, programmers, lawyers, > programmers, sysadmins, programmers, librarians, programmers etc. inside > of our community. ... I wanted to continue a serious mail, but I can't > anymore :) >
Don't forget the psycholinguists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycholinguistics) who may be working inside the Community. Marc _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
