Well Mr. Wales, if you believe these people have very good ideas for Wikimedia (and they most likely do), then I really don't see the harm of appointing them. However, has something like this worked with other non-profit organizations?
Sincerely, James Hare
On 6/19/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
To continue the ongoing board development conversation....
The board is considering adding some prominent person from outside the core Wikipedia community to the board and seeks brainstorming ideas of what type of person could be good, as well as mentions of names who we might want to approach.
Larry Lessig - head of Creative Commons
Mitch Kapor - head of Mozilla Foundation (Firefox), founder of EFF, and extremely passionate about the Wikipedia mission (and he edits Wikipedia, and he is absolutely fascinated by and supportive of our community model)
Richard Stallman - needs no introduction
Eben Moglen - main legal mastermind of the FSF
Comments on these names are welcome... as are further ideas of course!
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