Hello all,
I think it is very good to think about this kind of stuff, but maybe i missed a more general question, without asking about the exact person. However I do understand the enthousiasm of people when the idea exists to get Eben Moglan or another famous guy (I missed the women, but maybe overlooked them?) on the WMF-board, but I was wondering if someone could inform me why exactly we would need those people. Is it because they have a good insight, because they have certain qualities to *do* stuff, or that they could promote the concept better, as they are more famous, and will network better? Probably all of these reasons will be a part of the redenation Jimmy followed. But I think that with the current way the board is organized, the members of the board do a lot of stuff, and have to spend a very big amount of time on WMF, prevents maybe that the people named are willing to participate, but it would maybe also prevent that their qualities will be fully used. The board is pretty small now, and the percentage of "famous" people, who are *automaticly* buzzy too, will increase quickly when they are admitted to the board. I don't want to say that is bad, but that it might need also then some restructuring in the way the board functions. So I think it might be a good idea to think first of all about if we want prominant persons at all on the board (the answer will probably be yes though) and secondly, as Jimmy mentioned before, we should think about what kind of prominent person we want. Do we want someone with specific knowledge, do we want to bond the WMF through this boardmember to a certain type of organization, do we want someone active in politics so the ideals of the WMF can be spread that way, etc etc etc. Maybe it would be more usefull to think about this kind of questions first before we start with names. The discussion gets quite soon complicated then usually. This way we don't have to say people are bad or not famous enought also, as we are searching to find someone who fits into the profile, after we found a profile :) I hope my two cents are usefull,
greetings, Lodewijk aka effeietsanders (that guy with the long weird name)
2006/6/19, Lord Voldemort lordbishopvoldemort@gmail.com:
On 6/19/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know the right names, but someone who's been really good at advocating for improved resources/outreach into the third world, third
world
civil rights etc. would also be a great addition outside of the
"obvious"
choices.
Angelina Jolie? Works with U.N. without all the political implications of Kofi Annan. Downside: May give Christine a bit of a stomach ache considering Jolies past experiences with co-workers. ;-) Okay, I'll try and be more serious, I just couldn't help myself. --LV _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l