Congratulations Kelly and Arnnon!
-Hasive WMBD On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > I was amused to read the official announcement, which paints the two > new appointed white American trustees who "happen" to live and work > within an easy commute to the WMF offices in California, as a win for > diversity and internationalism.[1] > > No, WMF, these were cosy personal network appointments that make the > WMF look like a typical "old boys club" with a focus on money, power, > growth and do nothing to gain community confidence that your board is > going to turn around its strategy into something meaningful and > effective for our open knowledge mission over the next two years. > > In line with Anthony Cole's comment, the majority of the board should > declare a conflict and opt out of any vote that touches on Google, > Wikidata etc. but of course the on-going complacent group think will > apply. > > 1. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/05/new-wikimedia-foundation-trustees/ > > Fae > > On 6 January 2016 at 07:52, Anthony Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is all fascinating and concerning. Most concerning to me is the > > presence on the board of someone actually on Google's payroll right now. > > How can Denny not be fatally conflicted in all - or most - board > > deliberations that involve broad strategy - especially but not only to do > > with WikiData? > > > > Anthony Cole > > I'm on the board of Wiki Project Med Foundation. > > > > Anthony Cole > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Legoktm <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 01/05/2016 08:01 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > >> > I note we now have on the board: > >> > > >> > * Jimmy Wales, who has served as a member of Google's "Advisory > Council" > >> > * Denny Vrandecic, who is a Google employee > >> > * Guy Kawasaki, who has served as special advisor to the CEO of the > >> > Motorola business unit of Google > >> > * Kelly Battles of Bracket Computing, which partners with Google Cloud > >> > Platform > >> > * Arnnon Geshuri, who served as Senior Director of HR and Staffing at > >> Google > >> > > >> > Did I miss anyone? > >> > >> I think you missed all the board members who have Google set as their > >> browser's default search engine instead of using DuckDuckGo[1]. > >> > >> But really, I think you should be paying attention to Facebook. We are > >> reliant upon HHVM to run MediaWiki, which is developed by them, as well > >> as Phabricator for bug tracking, which was originally developed by them. > >> Furthermore, our current hardware officer[2] is a Facebook employee. > >> > >> [1] https://duckduckgo.com/ > >> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Officer > >> > >> -- Legoktm > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >> New messages to: [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > Personal and confidential, please do not circulate or re-quote. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) **:: **নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী (হাছিব)* User: Hasive <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hasive> | GSM/WhatsApp/Viber: +8801712754752 Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive> Member | GAC Committee, Wikimedia Foundation <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee> Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People> Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee <http://www.wikimedia.org.bd> fb.com/Hasive <http://fb.com/NCHasive> | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
