Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 May 2010 13:26, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:23 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> The overriding question will be the editorial role of the board. > The Board has no editorial role, on Commons or on any other Project, > nunless you consider high-level goal-setting and prioritiz

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-09 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:23 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 9 May 2010 07:30, Samuel J Klein wrote: > >> Perish the thought.  The Board is not controlling content - I >> would oppose any Board action that did so. < >> The Board does not support this - although individuals may -  it >> is not the rol

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 May 2010 07:30, Samuel J Klein wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> It's board members directly asserting control over content. Of >> course it's a major issue. > Perish the thought.  The Board is not controlling content - I would > oppose any Board action that d

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-09 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/2010 02:12, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Noein wrote: > >> >> I'm surprised it is apparently needed to be said, but I'm here too >> because I have faith in "universal values". In fact I've been attracted >> like a

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-08 Thread Samuel J Klein
I'll respond to a few related comments and questions at once: On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, David Gerard wrote: > It's board members directly asserting control over content. Of > course it's a major issue. Perish the thought. The Board is not controlling content - I would oppose any Board a

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-08 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Noein wrote: > > I'm surprised it is apparently needed to be said, but I'm here too > because I have faith in "universal values". In fact I've been attracted > like a magnet since the day, one year and five months ago, that I wondered: > "In this world rushing int

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-08 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/2010 00:05, Milos Rancic wrote: > There are some political reasons of why I am here. And they are about > our values: all human knowledge... not censored... consensus > culture... building encyclopedia etc., not surrealistic comedy... > [..] >

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-08 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: >> By now, just two Board members explicitly stated what do they think >> about Jimmy's action: Jan-Bart de Vreede and Ting Chen (who explained >> his position in details). >> >> According to

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-08 Thread David Gerard
On 8 May 2010 17:49, David Gerard wrote: > I've been working on the RationalWiki article on the decline and > all-but-collapse of Citizendium: > http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Citizendium - CZ now has less > contributors or actitvity than *Conservapedia*. And a lot of that was > due to hasty inte

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-08 Thread David Gerard
On 8 May 2010 17:46, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > As far as "which capacity", I think Jimmy's own statements make this > abundantly clear regardless of what the PR spin says: > "I am fully willing to change the policies for adminship (including > removing adminship in case of wheel warring on this is

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-08 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:37 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > I don't disagree, but I meant what I said about *single* most important issue! > > And I'm not sure that's how I'd frame it. The board statement seemed > pretty clear; reaffirming existing policy. I guess it depends a bit on > what capacity yo

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-08 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:31 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 8 May 2010 17:29, phoebe ayers wrote: > >> Well, we as a community don't require such individual statements about >> any other issue; I realize this may be a personal dealbreaker for you >> but it doesn't seem like the single most important

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-08 Thread David Gerard
On 8 May 2010 17:29, phoebe ayers wrote: > Well, we as a community don't require such individual statements about > any other issue; I realize this may be a personal dealbreaker for you > but it doesn't seem like the single most important issue of our day. > I'd much rather hear what individual b

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-08 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > By now, just two Board members explicitly stated what do they think > about Jimmy's action: Jan-Bart de Vreede and Ting Chen (who explained > his position in details). > > According to not precise Board's statement I may guess who supports > Ji

[Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

2010-05-08 Thread Milos Rancic
By now, just two Board members explicitly stated what do they think about Jimmy's action: Jan-Bart de Vreede and Ting Chen (who explained his position in details). According to not precise Board's statement I may guess who supports Jimmy's action and who doesn't. However, I don't want to guess. As