On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Gregory Kohs<thekohser(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia
Foundation
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Ah, yes... the other shoe drops. This is similar to the time when Amazon
invested $10 million in Wikia, Inc., but they insisted on installing Jeffrey
Blackburn from Amazon (
http://www.muckety.com/Query?SearchResult=30740&SearchResult=97356&…)
onto the Wikia board of directors. You don't want to throw $10
million at
something without having someone on the "inside" to pull a few strings.
Thus, we see why Halprin now sits on the WMF board. It's to keep an eye on
the $2 million. And all "transparently" announced on the very same day!
Bonus that Halprin also probably oversees the part of the $4 million that
Omidyar invested in Wikia, whose co-founder (Jimmy Wales) might be sitting
next to Halprin at the next board meeting, or whose OTHER co-founder (Angela
Beesley) might be found "advising" the WMF board from the position of chair
of the WMF Advisory Board.
If you're having trouble envisioning a Venn diagram of this arrangement, let
me try to help you. Imagine a few grains of rice (Jimbo and the WMF
board). Then imagine the color white (Halprin). Imagine some tasty
flavored sauce (Beesley). Then visualize a guy lining up the yummy rice on
his fork (Omidyar Network).
--
Gregory Kohs
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Wow. Just....wow. Wikimedia, this really really doesn't look good. Regardless
of how it's intended, it REALLY doesn't look good.
-Chad