2014/1/21 Jan-Bart de Vreede <jdevreede(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
I am not going to debate the different kinds of
movement representation in the board, but I would argue that the community directly and
indirectly influences 100% of the board, as appointed members are appointed by (s)elected
members and the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation.
What a bad joke... What does the community have to do with the
founder's seat (10% of the board)? And the members chosen by the board
itself (40%) have time and again shown that, despite their good faith
and best efforts, their understanding of the inner workings of the
community is scarce at best. I reckon (without any proof though) that
this distribution of seats is at least in part responsible for the
alienation between the Foundation and the community in 2009-2012.
Strainu