![]() In the process of trying to improve RationalWiki's reputation, the Board potentially further damaged it. And should the Board ever pursue a grant, partnership, or major donor, those people may ask the Foundation's only previous partnership, Media for Social Change, what we're like - and MfSC will say we didn't follow through. It's bank account balance is smaller, from paying for the extra domain name, and maybe paying Media for Social Change to make the webpage and a video, too. ![]() The Foundation does have something to show for all this. RW Docs was stillborn, doomed by the utter incompetence and disinterest of the Board. No scripts or outlines for prospective videos were written, nor did they ask anyone to write some. The Board didn't have the resources or manpower available to produce any follow-up videos, and no effort was made to commission anyone who did. No schedule for progress was worked out or next steps plotted. More to the point, no actions were taken to ensure the project would succeed in the first place. Its goal was to create a series of videos that would do in video form what the RationalWiki website does with its articles.Īlmost a year has passed, and no progress has been made. The Board decided that the Foundation needed something other than the RationalWiki website to show to prospective partners and interested outsiders, so they partnered with Media for Social Change in order to create a multimedia skeptics resource. Here is what I've learned: Some time after the RationalWiki Foundation was formed, the Board of Trustees became concerned that they would have difficulty expanding the Foundation, and partnering with other skeptical nonprofits, if it couldn't shake this site's reputation as a home base for vandals. And as anyone who has worked in a group knows, simply putting the best and brightest people together and expecting the best and brightest results doesn't always work. Reckless Noise Symphony is amazingly level-headed and extraordinarily cooperative.īut even good people can make poor decisions. WaitingforGodot is smart, patient, and highly educated. Human has over a decade of experience running a small business. Quirks aside, ListenerX is even-handed and far too educated for someone only a few years older than me. Nutty Roux is an experienced lawyer and supremely qualified to be a Trustee. Tmtoulouse co-founded and has spent years maintaining this site with little thanks. I have nothing but respect for the various Trustees. I post these concerns, and my suggestions for solving them, in good faith. Unfortunately, due to the Board's disinterest in communicating with the very site it was created to support, not many are aware of its egregious flaws. Over the past year I have learned many things about the Board of Trustees, responsible for running the RationalWiki Foundation. This is important, and I feel that as many RationalWikians as possible should read it - including people who don't stop by every day or keep track of the forumspace.) ![]() (I ask that this be left in the Saloon bar, and not archived or isolated on a forum prematurely. Open Letter to the RationalWiki Foundation (sticky) ![]() 11 "Put plans to appear at TAM or partner with other skeptic organizations on hold".8 Just enough information to not know anything.2.2 Complete disengagement from the RationalWiki community.2 Open Letter to the RationalWiki Foundation (sticky).
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