For fun and nostalgia, and because half of the people mentioned below
are on the original list, here is a very old, speculative and
good-humoured meta discussion of an "ideal Wikipedia board" before
Wikimedia existed*.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_ideal_Wikipedia_board
These old discussions can be refreshing; WP and the WMF have followed
one course, but there were many other sister roads that might have
been followed, each with its own tone.
SJ
* The "less dreamy, but more practical, version" mentioned at the top
was something this (a cross between nostalgia and deja-vu... if you
look at the people involved in the conversation) :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Archive1
On 6/19/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)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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