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

[Kim Bruning]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 12:14:14PM -0400, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> it is a too common reaction of people in the community to 
> think of "the Foundation" as a distant entity to be blamed or yelled at 
> when something goes wrong.

Heh, that's actually pretty much the best-to-hope-for ideal as far as 
service management organisations go. 

If the foundation can act in the background and ensure the wikis
keep working, I'd say that that's a fairly important task in
itself. 

As usual for such a role, people only notice when
things go wrong. Not a word of praise, but when things
break down, it's moan moan moan ;-) [1]

So I'd say that if that's how people view the foundation mostly,
- well sure that's not exactly great - but at least it's a good sign.

read you soon,
	Kim Bruning
[1] And hey, paradoxally, at least it stimulates people to donate more money for our servers. 

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