On Jun 19, 2006, at 5:07 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
To continue the ongoing board development conversation....
The board is considering adding some prominent person from outside the
core Wikipedia community to the board and seeks brainstorming ideas of
what type of person could be good, as well as mentions of names who we
might want to approach.
Larry Lessig - head of Creative Commons
Mitch Kapor - head of Mozilla Foundation (Firefox), founder of EFF,
and
extremely passionate about the Wikipedia mission (and he edits
Wikipedia, and he is absolutely fascinated by and supportive of our
community model)
Richard Stallman - needs no introduction
Eben Moglen - main legal mastermind of the FSF
Comments on these names are welcome... as are further ideas of course!
I have always viewed Jimbo's suggestion that we "distribute a paper
encyclopedia to African children" as quixotic but I have in
connection with a possible board member wondered if we could create a
series of documents which focus on public health which would prove
useful in Africa, possibly also in China and other regions, and be
worth distributing as part of a public health education campaign.
There was lately a cholera epidemic in Angola which affected most of
the country. There is a lot of ignorance involved in this sort of
situation. I don't see this project so much directed to children as
to local decision makers. It would contain information about disease
and disease prevention, etc. The question, bottom line, is would a
project of this nature actually prove effective? Or should we first
see if we could even mobilize around it? One of the good aspects
regarding this possible board member is that he is a hands on,
computer literate guy with experience in give and take.
Fred
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