[Foundation-l] Would you consider being on the Board?

[Fred Bauder]

Some good points. We definitely want control over what a volunteer  
lawyer or public relations person is doing.

Fred

On Jun 9, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Kelly Martin wrote:

> On 6/9/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
>
>> Tight control of "volunteers" is standard operating practice at
>> almost all nonprofits, a management practice that can only produce
>> big trouble here. Some insight into how our process works is  
>> necessary.
>>
>
> There's a difference between our editors and our volunteers.  Our
> editors are, in many ways, our customers, almost as much as our
> readers are.  Our volunteers are the people who serve on our myriad
> committees, who speak for Wikimedia with the press and with donors,
> the people who handle OTRS, our developers, our server administrators,
> and others working in a Foundation-related role.  It makes sense for
> us to exercise tighter control over these people than we do now, and
> we can certainly do so without impacting the open editing aspect of
> our projects that has been so successful so far.
>
> I'm undecided as to whether the Foundation should exercise more
> control over project administrators; I think this is an issue that
> needs to be discussed in more depth than it has to date.
>
> Kelly
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