Florence, He would have been, I'm sure, but I'm not sure what it costs to rent a flat in Terminus. I imagine the moving costs will be quite high.
All the best, Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 9 March 2016 at 15:28, Florence Devouard <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 09/03/16 16:00, WereSpielChequers a écrit : > >> Don't be so hasty to rule out Donald. >> >> With Computers coming down in price and Artificial Intelligence programs >> steadily improving it should be perfectly possible to train an AI >> program >> with the decision making power needed to make CEO style decisions; >> Remember >> Chess has long had better computer players than human ones. And having >> the >> CEObot trained to adopt the personality, communication style and persona >> of >> a much loved and highly successful comic artiste means they would be >> something of a known and trusted quantity. >> >> Indeed it would temporarily put us at the leading edge of technology, >> though in a few years everyone will be using CEObots. >> >> The only slight problems are that if we wanted to hire an AI CEO the >> community would object to one that wasn't open source. And as a high >> profile organisation we wouldn't want to be using the same licensed CEObot >> as thousands of other organisations, especially if we had to pay a license >> fee to Disney. >> > > > I just realized Isaac Asimov might have been a great trustee for WMF. > Sadly... > > > Florence > > > > > Jonathan/WereSpielChequers >> >> >>> On 3/5/16 8:28 AM, Chris Sherlock wrote: >>> >>>> In it's decision making capacity, the Board should: >>>>> >>>>> * Select, evaluate and (if necessary) remove the Executive Director; >>>>> >>>> >>>> Whilst I'm sure that C-level managers are up to the task, that's rather >>>> >>> abrogating the responsibility of the Board. >>> >>> I think you are misunderstanding. The Board will meet to discuss and >>> approve the recommendation of the C-level managers. In order to >>> properly carry out the Board's supervisory duties, we can and should >>> take advice from those who are best situated. We have not transferred >>> the legal right and responsibility onto the C-level managers - we have >>> indicated to them that we trust that they will make a reasonable >>> recommendation. >>> >>> If, contrary to all expectations, they came back with a recommendation >>> for Donald Duck or Donald Trump or some other cartoon character, we'd >>> obviously refuse their recommendation as would be our fiduciary duty. >>> >>> --Jimbo >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> 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>
