For the inside, I would think Yana W would be a good candidate, but as Raul Veede suggested on FB, it would be bad to loose her expertise in her current role.
Dan, I think you are right that we are not yet ready to have a drop-in replacement simply because we should figure out what went wrong first. Possibly we shouldn't even have an ED, but rather have a flatter community-driven committee that allocates funds, and projects getting resources from it. And this committee would, in affect, be the direction-determining force. On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 1:23 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm agreed with Dan and Nathan (well, Nathan's implied point) both. > > Right now we need stability. I'd much prefer an interim ED appointed > from inside the organisation or movement, ideally someone who has been > watching what's been going on. And then time for healing and > reflection in that space of stability that lets us make a better > decision. > > I have no particular opinions on Lessig - or on Creative Commons - > except to note that the organisational leaders are the people whose > opinions on trauma around reorganisations least matter, insofar as, > structurally, they are both the people least likely to be messed over > by them and the people most detached from any swirling mass of feeling > that exists in the employee base. I'd be interested instead in hearing > from current or former employees (I know a couple and they are not as > positive, but it's a small sample size) to make any evaluation more > informed. > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I met him, he's amazingly focused and radical, I appreciate his brand of > intellect very much. But I think suggesting candidates for the ED position > at this time is jumping two steps ahead of where we are. > > > > We just screwed up. We were all dragged through months of an awkward > collapse of our leadership and organizational structure. Before we start > piling the rubble of this collapse back up into the same exact shape with a > different keystone, let's take a breath and think. > > > > First we should make sure we understand what, more or less, failed. It > was not just Lila. Second, we should talk about what options we have and > what criteria we should use to evaluate those options. > > > > We can be patient. We have reaffirmed our respect for each other and we > trust each other enough to share ideas, emotions, and proposals. This is > our foundation, and it hasn't collapsed. > > > > Original Message > > From: Yuri Astrakhan > > Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 16:47 > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > > Reply To: Wikimedia Mailing List > > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Lawrence Lessig for ... WMF > > > > I would like to continue the discussion of who, in an ideal case, would > be > > a good fit for the ED position. This person has to fit culturally, share > > movement's values, and be a trusted figure in the time of rebuilding. > > > > Lawrence Lessig seems to have a very strong support in the community, and > > even attempted to run (unsuccessfully) a large organization called United > > States. > > > > Thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > > 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> > > _______________________________________________ > 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>
