[Foundation-l] Can a wikimedia-b list be setup

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Pat Gunn wrote:

Hi Pat,

I guess the real question here is defining who "we" is. I see "we" as 
the whole of planet earth,
not just the current incarnation of the community. As for point 11, when 
people are investing money
to see THEIR goals fulfilled, you kindof have to balance all the 
concerns of the various players.
Not an easy task.

Linux Kernel development uses an unmoderated list where some very 
powerful players interact
from a business world and the internet community worlds and do so very 
well. IBM, Novell,
and folks from this very community (Gregory Maxwell for example) all 
interact in this model and
have vritually achieved global dominion of OS development and deployment 
by finding a common
ground and balancing these enormous conflux of powers.

It works because the pressure for people to act responsilbly is based on 
finanacial and business concerns
and support of the various business entities and their acceptance of 
technology proposals.

Jeff

>Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>You know, I did not want to address this on this list, but it appears I 
>>will have to in order
>>for folks to get it.
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>I believe this is a poor line of reasoning for a bad idea. The
>foundation has certain goals, and these are not always realised
>by the community at large, nor must they all deal with the
>responsibility, fine details, or the work involved in making
>sure the project stays afloat. By and large, the goals of the
>community and those of the foundation coincide though, helped
>by the transparency and (certain amounts of) openness. I am very
>concerned at your implication (in point 9) that nondisruptive
>efforts to suggest that some arrangements are not acceptable to
>the community should be easily overruled by the business interests
>of the foundation. The "Explosive growth" you say should be our
>goal is dangerous in the same way that cancer is -- it can easily
>become a perversion of our hopes and structure in the name of
>size. We must be careful about growth and absolutely
>insistent on as much openness and inclusiveness as possible,
>even when it costs us business opportunities. I am similarly very
>disturbed at your point 11, which suggests that off-list lobbying
>against proposed business ventures is something that we should
>consider verboten or dangerous. 
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