I’ve added sufficient value to Wikimedia to be flown over (as a volunteer) to help with the interviews for the next Chief Communications Officer, i.e. press person. (Since I’ve been the leading volunteer press person for Wikipedia since 2005.) I’m moderately proud of this. Assuming your border personnel let me into your wonderful country at all, of course …
I’m also running for the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. (Questions, how I voted.) We’ll see how awesomely that works out. It’s a shitty, shitty volunteer job, but I feel that sucking force one feels in a volunteer organisation when a competence-shaped hole opens up. I’m going in as the “set it all on fucking fire” candidate, but I’ve actually done this job before and know very well I could do this shitty job for two years and do it well … even though the most tediously awful part of the job is dealing with fellow arbitrators. Ah, battles for insanely low stakes.
Update:Visit was fun. Didn’t get on arbcom, feel fine about that (though admittedly not very awesome from it).
I am laughing at this being in the brag thread when I might brag about being smart enough never to run for the committee again, and looking forward to meeting you in person—I turn up at the WMF office on my work from home days.
Considering that you quit the arbcom because you’d joined the Wikimedia board of trustees and ended up chairing the Foundation … I’m pretty sure I’m avoiding emulating that model!
I have no idea what schedule they’re running me through, but give ’em a ping …
I’ve added sufficient value to Wikimedia to be flown over (as a volunteer) to help with the interviews for the next Chief Communications Officer, i.e. press person. (Since I’ve been the leading volunteer press person for Wikipedia since 2005.) I’m moderately proud of this. Assuming your border personnel let me into your wonderful country at all, of course …
I’m also running for the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. (Questions, how I voted.) We’ll see how awesomely that works out. It’s a shitty, shitty volunteer job, but I feel that sucking force one feels in a volunteer organisation when a competence-shaped hole opens up. I’m going in as the “set it all on fucking fire” candidate, but I’ve actually done this job before and know very well I could do this shitty job for two years and do it well … even though the most tediously awful part of the job is dealing with fellow arbitrators. Ah, battles for insanely low stakes.
Update: Visit was fun. Didn’t get on arbcom, feel fine about that (though admittedly not very awesome from it).
I am laughing at this being in the brag thread when I might brag about being smart enough never to run for the committee again, and looking forward to meeting you in person—I turn up at the WMF office on my work from home days.
Considering that you quit the arbcom because you’d joined the Wikimedia board of trustees and ended up chairing the Foundation … I’m pretty sure I’m avoiding emulating that model!
I have no idea what schedule they’re running me through, but give ’em a ping …
Yes, well, I said I was smart enough to leave the Committee, not that I was smart enough to turn down other jobs. :-)