[Foundation-l] Hiring of Interim Executive Director and Legal Counsel

[Delphine Ménard]

On 6/14/06, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> > I agree completely.  I resist very strongly any separation of foundation
> > and community.
>
> How about a different point of view? Separated in concept, but united
> in practice. I am aware it sounds very inclining to a certain cultural
> background, but still daresay this idea itself can be applied to many
> cases, specially we need to cooperate with each other.
>
> Separation itself is nothing wrong. Separation without communication
> nor collaboration is bad, or useless at best, assuredly.
>
> If there is no separation, we require never two words or concepts: in
> practice the community isn't involved into a certain matter which the
> foundation cares for, and vice versa, I assume. If that sounds too
> metaphisical or awkward, we might need another terminology, like
> distinction, instead of separation.

Thank you for that. This is exactly what I think we should tend towards.

Delphine

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