On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I really fail to see how being an advisory board member could in any sense create a conflict of interest. As the term very well describes it, advisory board members are merely advisors.... not decision makers. Just as *any* community member is also an advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation staff.
Thank you, Florence. Other people did have the same question: http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/#comment-6230, so it's definitely a valid question and I'm glad we got that clarified.