2008/4/27, Tim Landscheidt tim@tim-landscheidt.de:
Personally, I would not mind if the current board's terms end 2099 as long as the servers are running, MediaWiki is maintained and developed and the financial conduct does not cross any legal limits.
Tim
I am not sure how to read this, but I would like to state that the mission of the Foundation (and actually of the Movement, which is much more important) is much broader then that. If we would only care about the servers, software and legal limits, I would very seriously wonder why we are continuing, because Free knowledge is about much more then that.
There are roughly four aspects of Free Knowledge in the game here. Creating, Maintaining, Gathering (but not creating yourself) and spreading. All those are of major importance. To create Free Knowledge, you need a community (which you have to maintain) and good infrastructure (ie, software), to maintain the Free Knowlegde you need both a Community and the Technical things (ie, servers). to gather you need much more contacts and goodwill, knowledge of local customs etc, and to spread, you need again another set of skills and resources.
So please let's be proud on our mission, and try to work it out in it's full glory.
BR, Lodewijk