2016-01-06 5:01 GMT+01:00 Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com:
I note we now have on the board:
- Jimmy Wales, who has served as a member of Google's "Advisory Council"
- Denny Vrandecic, who is a Google employee
- Guy Kawasaki, who has served as special advisor to the CEO of the
Motorola business unit of Google
- Kelly Battles of Bracket Computing, which partners with Google Cloud
Platform
- Arnnon Geshuri, who served as Senior Director of HR and Staffing at Google
Did I miss anyone?
You missed the fact that San Francisco is in California.
The main point is what Liam said, i.e. the lack of geographical and professional diversity of the board, the rest is much more probably a small-world effect[1].
Suggesting a "conspirationist" explanation to this situation is going driving attention away from solving the actual problem.
Cristian [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment