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On Dec 18, 2007 1:08 AM, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Nathan Awrich wrote:
There is no reason to reinvent the wheel
when you have a design that works - Wikimedia adopted a fairly conventional structure for its board, and it should continue to rely on governance concepts that have been proven. Organizations like Mozilla, EPIC, EFF, the ACLU and others might be targets not only for adapting their governance style but also for attracting outside members of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees. Additionally, you could investigate recruiting Board members from academic and encyclopedic organizations with similar missions.
Some previous board members were very insistant that we should primarily recruit from the community.
indeed it was and still is at least this previous board member's firm belief concerning open *staff-positions*: 1. that these should be openly advertised before being filled 2. that these should always be advertised to the community in the first place, but not exclusively
oscar