On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:47 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/4/30 Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
Is he interested? If not, then he's not a
good example. If so, then
why doesn't he start participate on the mailing lists, and become
involved in the community? Note that Brian said "with no editing
experience and no involvement in the community", not just "not a
Wikipedian".
I was most pleased to discover many Creative Commons people (including
Joi Ito) reading commons-l. Obviously, there's a common interest on
that list.
OTOH, foundation-l could be more than a little offputting to people
not used to our little ways (it's offputting enough for those who
are).
There are lots of parts of the WMF that are offputting to people. But
if someone finds *all* the different activities of the WMF to be
offputting, why in the world would they want to be on its board?
Personally, I do believe that all board members or prospective board
members should participate on foundation-l at least once in a while,
but that isn't even what I suggested above. Someone who participated
only on commons-l might be OK, though I'd hope s/he'd at least drop a
line here as to why s/he doesn't participate here, and what could be
done to improve the situation so that s/he would.