[Foundation-l] A contribution to numerology

[Florence Devouard]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/4/29 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
> 
>>  If we are talking about money, the potential value of Wikimedia is far
>>  more than $7 billions. As an organized cultural movement in the near
>>  future its value will be at the level of one country with 10-20
>>  millions of inhabitants.
> 
> 
> A lot of the problems with the perceived power of the board is that
> Wikimedia is, both at once, a loosely-linked group of tens of
> thousands of volunteers writing huge and popular websites full of
> useful information, but also a small charity with about 10 staff and a
> budget of a few million dollars to run a horribly popular website.
> People see the first and expect the people in the second to have a
> commensurate amount of power. When actually they're just part of the
> herd of cats, tagged "chief cat herders" and still trying to work out
> what constitutes a tin of tuna in this context.
> 

that's a good one :-)

Ant