[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

[Andrew Lih]

On 9/18/06, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Remember: whoever is elected will be a very public
> representative of the projects and the Foundation in many situations, and
> thus that person needs to be articulate about them.

Let's remember though - for a board of trustees, typically each member
is not supposed to be, by design, a vocal public representative of the
foundation. This has been an historical tension with WMF - the role of
the board and the role of the executives.

A board's first function is the careful consideration of the
well-being of the Foundation's principles. And that often might mean
being unified specifically in NOT playing out Foundation issues in a
public forum.