--- daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
This is not an indictment of volunteers. I believe that they are the lifeblood of this organization. At our size, however, we are faced with enormous responsibilities. All of these efforts at reorganization are attempts to channel volunteer efforts effectively, so that they can continue doing what they do best--fulfilling the Foundation's mission statement by creating and distributing high quality free content resources--while limiting the repercussions that the Foundation, and by extension, the volunteers, face when things do not go right. This is something that requires professional legal and financial knowhow.
Exactly. And while the pool of Wikimedians who can help is large and growing larger, that pool will not always have the right mix of skills we need to run the foundation (sic the oranization NOT the projects). Thus we will sometimes have to look outside that community to fill certain roles within the foundation.
BTW, every board member is also a Wikipedian. :) Some just edit more than others.
-- mav
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