[Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009-

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 17:06:05 UTC 2009


Hoi,
Relevant is what our aim is. Our aim is to bring the total sum of knowledge
to everyone. Now, that means that we have to be Portuguese in Portugal,
Dutch in the Netherlands and I leave you to be British in Britain. In the
end that is what we ask people to contribute to.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/9/11 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>

> 2009/9/11 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> > 2009/9/11 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
> >> Hoi,
> >> You are doing it again. You insist that for them being Wikimedians they
> must
> >> share the same values the same culture as you do... It must be true
> because
> >> you insist on it. Somehow I do not buy it.
> >
> > If they value themselves over our goals, they are entitled to those
> > values, but I want nothing to do with them.
>
> PS Even if you are right, surely the relevant values are those of the
> donors, not the people spending the money? If they were spending money
> they had fundraised it would be a different matter, since the donors
> would be from the same culture, but that isn't the case.
>
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