[Foundation-l] Opinions/suggestions for "outside" members of the board?
Kelly Martin
kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 19 22:37:19 UTC 2006
All of these names, and several of those named later on in this
thread, would be admirably suitable candidates for the advisory board.
Whether they'd fit on the governing board or not is a touchier issue.
Kelly
On 6/19/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> To continue the ongoing board development conversation....
>
> The board is considering adding some prominent person from outside the
> core Wikipedia community to the board and seeks brainstorming ideas of
> what type of person could be good, as well as mentions of names who we
> might want to approach.
>
> Larry Lessig - head of Creative Commons
>
> Mitch Kapor - head of Mozilla Foundation (Firefox), founder of EFF, and
> extremely passionate about the Wikipedia mission (and he edits
> Wikipedia, and he is absolutely fascinated by and supportive of our
> community model)
>
> Richard Stallman - needs no introduction
>
> Eben Moglen - main legal mastermind of the FSF
>
> Comments on these names are welcome... as are further ideas of course!
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