Exactly.
Casey Brown Cbrown1023
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of George Herbert Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:21 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [announcement] new staff member in businessdevelopment
On 5/18/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
The WMF is not a business. It's a publicly supported charity. As such, I think the proper solution is to limit business activities as much as possible.
This is insane and irresponsible; any organization with this much activity and financial throughput not run as a business (in terms of professionalism), specifically INCLUDING real charities, is insane.
The charities and nonprofits I know of all enthusiastically hire professional business people to do business stuff... because it's how you get things done at that level.