Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010-02-26 Thread Casey Brown
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > For my experience - even Cary has sometimes problems to figure our > whom to contact in the Office for a specific inquiry - and this is not > his fault but just because it is simply not well resolved inside > Office, so I guess producing a si

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010-02-26 Thread Bod Notbod
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > For my experience - even Cary has sometimes problems to figure our > whom to contact in the Office for a specific inquiry - and this is not > his fault but just because it is simply not well resolved inside > Office, so I guess producing a s

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010-02-26 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/26 Casey Brown : > All this being said, don't feel bad if you want to run something > through Cary first.  He can always help you figure out who's the best > person to handle your query, it might not necessarily even *be* a > staff member. > For my experience - even Cary has sometimes prob

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010-02-26 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/2/26 Bod Notbod : > All of which led me to look at the foundation's staff page: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff > > I think answers to these questions will be very useful to strategy > volunteers and so I'd like permission (or explicit advice not) to > paste up the response on t

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010-02-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Feb 25, 2010, at 9:25 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > Personally, I don't think you should feel discouraged from contacting > staff directly. Quite a few of them have accounts on others wikis > (like Meta, for example) and you can talk to them on their talk pages > there. Also, they all have e-mail

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010-02-25 Thread Casey Brown
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Bod Notbod wrote: > I *think* it's almost inevitable that a side-effect of strat is that > some volunteers will want to discuss ideas with WMF staff; it's > acknowledged that the role of the WMF, of chapters and of volunteers > overlap to some degree and while disc

[Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010-02-25 Thread Bod Notbod
I've been part of the strategy process these last few months and will continue to contribute to the wiki ( strategy.wikimedia.org ). I've been talking to strategy facilitator Philippe and one of the things that's come up and is still being discussed [1] is who will be responsible for putting vario