On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
David Goodman wrote:
4) "Self-selecting fiduciary boards"
are a well established way
of preventing organisations from reflecting the will of their
actual constituency.
This was discussed already in 2003 when Jimbo set up the Wikimedia
Foundation as it now is, rather than as a "democratic" membership
organization.
You may want to read the comment by Alex T. Roshuk at
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2007/07/who-cares-about-process.html
(and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alex756) for a different
history. According to the bylaws in 2003, when Jimbo set up the
Wikimedia Foundation, it was a membership organization.