[Foundation-l] thoughts on leakages

[Dan Rosenthal]

No, I'm not at all suggesting any committee be formed to police the  
board. What I'm saying is that it's impossible for the board to police  
themselves, so the community as a whole needs to do so, by having  
impeachment power. The exact same way that the entire community has  
the ability to elect members to the board, the entire community should  
have the power to remove members from the board. And by that, I do NOT  
mean waiting  until the term is up and then not voting for them.  
Without external enforcement power, in this case a potentially angry  
community, there is no incentive for the board to remain transparent.

-Dan

On Jan 12, 2008, at 4:56 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:

> Dan Rosenthal wrote:
>
>> Jussi-ville is exactly right. Who will police the board?
>
> Maybe you two guys are the nicest in the world, but the limited
> impression that I get by only reading your posts on this list is
> that you have a lot of complaints, but no real problem.  Perhaps
> there are some real issues you could focus on instead?  Or are you
> trying to portray the current board and staff as incompetent, to
> build a platform for your own candidacy?  What do you aim for?
>
> Dan, are you proposing that you should head a committee to police
> the board?  If there needs to be a police, then someone has to
> fill that position.  Is this you?  Is that what you want?
>
> In my naïve and limited view of this world, the Wikimedia
> Foundation works just fine.  The servers are running and everybody
> should be happy.  You might want to explain why I'm wrong.
>
>
> -- 
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>
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