User:Doc James/FRAM

Timeline of my public comments

 * June 11th "I have requested, as a board member, a briefing of what occured, preferably today Pacific standard time. Might not be able to arrange anything until Jun 14th however."


 * June 12th "Will confirm User:Fæ's comment that this is a personal statement by Raystorm and not a board position. The board has not yet had the opportunity to meet."


 * June 15th "Not aware of any specifics User:Tazerdadog. We at Wiki Project Med Foundation and the Wiki Journal of Medicine are working on codes of conduct. IMO such codes need to be developed by the communities (with potentially some support from the foundation) not by the foundation independently." and "Was aware of the team. They have been working on tools such as partial blocks for EN WP. Am hoping they would also look at improving the CU interface (but as I am not a CU not sure if they are). User:Nosebagbear been busy at work today and need a bit of time to catch up."


 * June 15th Jimbo's talk page "Discussions are ongoing and conclusions have not yet been reached."


 * June 26th "Am looking at organizing some discussions around governance within our communities at Wikimania. Please ping me if you will be there. Unfortunately I do not have funds to cover others travel (but will be covering my own)."


 * June 28th "Hey All Apologies for not responding more and sooner. I am wanting to give everyone an update. The board is working on a statement. The plan has never been to wait it out just that, as we all know consensus, takes time. I would implore the community to give us more time. With respect to a timeline we should have a statement within a week. I would like to personally request that people hold off making long term plans with respect to future participation until the board can attempt to address your concerns." and "I am not willing to sign on to "boiler plate bullshit". I have spent the better part of my professional career working on Wikipedia and I do it entirely as a volunteer, including paying my own way to Wikimania / board meetings. I am not here for any other reason other than the mission."


 * "I appreciate those being strait. I said "within a week". I am very much pushing for sooner. This has definitely not gone the way I wanted." and "Personally I do not consider anyone who has resigned their bits or carried out admin or bureaucrat actions that than resulted in them giving up their bits related to the current events to have done so "under a cloud". I consider these actions to be acceptable acts of protest, done in what they consider to be the best interests of our movement. Our Fifth pillar still stands." and "Agree it is not my choice, it is the communities. But I will be weighting in if such a discussion is needed and people now know how I will weight in."


 * July 2nd Signed the WMF board statement


 * July 2nd in reply to "I interpret it the same way as Seraphimblade - if ArbCom are able to review the length and scope, then it would be possible for them to reduce it to 'time served' (or, conversely, to lengthen it to indef). Regarding the scope, presumably they could change it from a siteban to an iban, or whatever they deem necessary." I stated "That is also my understanding of what we meant."


 * "Yes the entire board signed off on this."


 * July 3 "User:Xinbenlv good point. Yes everyone but the chair agreed to this statement as the chair had recused herself. She was not involved in drafting this statement in any way. Jimmy has confirmed that arbcom can overturn the WMF T&S in this situation. And that T&S is not going to make similar bans until agreement is reached on process"