On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 09:06:35PM -0400, Brad Patrick wrote:
This is the big picture stuff the board will be
thinking about for the
Retreat. I'm not worried about a million dollar donation. I'm worried
about how to think about an organization that has a *billion* dollars.
Does this mean we'll finally be able to run wikimedia out of a trust fund?
I'd be more interested in being around for 100 years than having a billion
dollars to play with, however tempting the latter might seem at first blush.
Running as lean as possible and not _depending_ on too much income is another
way to be sure we'll still be around in 2106. We can't count on always having
goodwill.
read you soon,
Kim Bruning
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