[Foundation-l] About transparency

[Derrick Farnell]

>
> there are
> some requirements by the management to have persons who can help them
> to have historical knowledge about the projets and to have an in depth
> knowledge of the communities.
>

The community can also provide such knowledge.

The advantage of the board is that *the board change* with addition of
> new persons who can bring *new* visions and *new* relations and *new*
> experience.
>

The community can also provide all of that.

Personally I disagree any action of the management towards communities
> *without* board's consultation: it could be a suicide.
>

I wasn't suggesting that management should make decisions without
consultation - indeed, I was suggesting that they there should be more, not
less, consultation, by consulting not just the board, but also the community
as a whole.

Derrick Farnell


On Dec 28, 2007 12:49 PM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally I disagree with this vision (There is a board because
> legally an association requires to have a board), because there are
> some requirements by the management to have persons who can help them
> to have historical knowledge about the projets and to have an in depth
> knowledge of the communities. The management itself declare that.
>
> IMHO the board *has got* this knowledge (and not a single person in
> the board) because the board is heterogeneous, come from the
> communities and all members seems to be (or to have been) wikipedians.
>
> Without the board the management could take wrong ways.
>
> The advantage of the board is that *the board change* with addition of
> new persons who can bring *new* visions and *new* relations and *new*
> experience.
>
> Personally I disagree any action of the management towards communities
> *without* board's consultation: it could be a suicide.
>
> Ilario
>
> On Dec 28, 2007 12:44 PM, Derrick Farnell <derrick.farnell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Found the below interesting little piece about the Foundation on the web
> (
> > http://www.timshell.com/wikipedia/whyboard.html). I think it would help
> > matters here if the current board stated whether it is still true today.
> As
> > I stated earlier in this thread, I'm not just concerned about the demise
> of
> > 'radical transparency', but also about the fact that the decision to
> kill it
> > off was apparently made without consultation with the community.
> >
> > Derrick Farnell
>
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