I echo your sentiments, Tom. Losing any of the staff who are departing is a
blow.
As for IT support, the 2014 Activity Plan says:
"The development budget seeks to support the day to day system
administration of the Chapter’s IT infrastructure, including the hosting of
its community and internal wikis, databases, email accounts and so on. This
is vital to ensure as a movement entity we are managing data and donations
in a secure and professional way. In addition, it seeks to solicit, develop
and deliver community generated ideas for software projects that will
support content production or improvement." -
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2014_Activity_Plan#Development_budget
Sadly there's no 2015 Activity Plan to guide us, but I'd be surprised if we
could decide to drop the commitments outlined above. Of course, it's always
possible the Board is counting on the third Project Coordinator's
"Excellent software skills, including word-processing, spreadsheets, event
management programmes, and CRM databases" to plug that gap. At £25K-£28K,
full-time in Central London, I won't be holding my breath for that to
happen.
--
Rexx
On 14 May 2015 at 00:03, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Just had a look through the proposals; a reasonable
start, but a lot to
do. I'm not totally impressed with D'arcys plan overall, and I am concerned
a lot of effort has been expended on this plan, at the expense of
day-to-day operations of the. Charity (critical for a successful
transitional role, typical of a downsizer CEO). There may be more to the
plan for the future that has yet to be revealed (the process has been too
non-transparent to date).
Very narrowed focus, but on things the charity does well, so that's nice.
The lack of education is fairly concerning, Toni was an important asset.
Losing Kat is a huge blow.
Tom
On 13 May 2015 23:54, "Thomas Morton" <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
FWIW I've had no communication about whether
the charity wishes to retain
my services as a contractor. So your guess is as good as mine :)
Tom
On 13 May 2015 22:58, "Michael Peel" <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
The staff page [2] will be updated to reflect the
new staffing over
the next two weeks.
The page seems to be in the process of being updated, see:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Staff&diff=65842&oldid=6…
It sounds like Katherine Bavage, Toni Sant, Katie Chan, Jonathan Cardy
and Fabian Tompsett have been let go, which is really sad news. :-(
(Also: Davina Johnson seems to have become a member of staff rather than
a contractor? It's not clear what's happened with the tech contractors:
they seem to have been removed from the page with no clear answer on their
future role...)
Thanks,
Mike
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