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

[Kirill Lokshin]

On 6/10/06, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 03:06:25AM +1000, Angela wrote:
> > With the talk on this list recently of jobs that need doing, I'm
> > interested to know whether there are many people who would be
> > interested in being a member of the Board if there were more seats
> > available. If that is something you'd consider, please let me know.
>
> The old internet maxim is that anyone who wants the job, probably isn't
> suited to it. It might be wiser to find people who might be suitable,
> and then somehow do them an offer they cannot refuse.
>
> I don't know any people from outside wikimedia at this moment in time
> who might be helpful. I'll leave that to others.
>
> I do know people from the community, and can make some reccomendations.
>
> People who would likely actually be suited from the community or
> otherwise might be:
> * Members of chapter boards , who we could steal
> * people currently doing other foundation work who could be "promoted"
> * People generally trusted inside a particular wikipedia community
> * all around smart people.
>
> Some aspects that might be good
> * Typically "older" users who have a lot of experience
> * People who are mild, and unlikely to enter conflict
> * People who have also had some amount of real life experience.
>
> Here's some people with current responsibilities, that I know of and can
> quickly dig up out of my (endo)memory.
>
> * James Forrester (arbitration, current foundation work, uk chapter)
> * Sannse (mediation and arbitration, otrs)
> * Mindspillage (Mediation and arbitration, otrs, press contact)
> * Oscar (Did interim management irl, setting up wikimedia netherlands
>   chapter, otrs, might not enjoy getting more work)
> * Essjay (Some current foundation work, highly trusted. Wikipedoholic)
> * Amgine (Often more approachable than anyone else on foundation
>           matters, press)
> * Elian  (Already used to bossing jimbo around O:-) )
> * Delphine (Chapters committee)
> * Bishonen (Known to a lot of people, seen as voice of reason)
>
> * Explicitly not Brion. He's doing too much useful work as a
>   developer. :-)
>
> If eveyone else searches their memory in the same way, we'll quickly
> have a decent shortlist.
>
> Only come up with suitable people for now.  Don't worry if they protest
> or refuse for now, we'll sort that part out later.
>
> So now it's up to the rest of the list to come up with some more names.
> Ideas?

On a somewhat subtle point, being on the Board would presumably
involve publicly revealing one's real-life identity, no?  That might
be a factor for people like Essjay, who have generally avoided doing
so.

-- 
Kirill Lokshin