[Foundation-l] [Announcement] Welcome to the advisory group

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Florence Devouard [mailto:anthere at anthere.org]
>Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 07:41 AM
>To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] Welcome to the advisory group
>
>As decided last august, we set up an advisory group according to 
>resolution http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Advisory_board
>
>You'll find the entire list here: 
>http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board
>
>Welcome to
>
>         Angela Beesley (eh !)
>         Ward Cunningham
>         Heather Ford
>         Melissa Hagemann
>         Danny Hillis
>         Mitch Kapor
>         Joris Komen
>         Rebecca MacKinnon
>         Wayne Mackintosh
>         Benjamin Mako Hill
>         Erin McKean
>         Trevor Nielson
>         Achal Prabhala
>         Jay Rosen
>         Clay Shirky
>         Peter Suber
>         Raoul Weiler
>         Ethan Zuckerman
>
>who have agreed to give a bit of their time and expertise, to help us 
>navigate in the difficult waters of collaborative software, free 
>licensing, free speech, education for all, governance, sustainability 
>models...
>We really appreciate.
>
>How did we chose these people ? Either because they were already 
>frequently in touch with us, or because we thought their experience 
>could help. "We" is both the board and the community, as the board also 
>contacted some of the people whose names showed up when I asked help on 
>this list.
>Is that list closed ? Of course not. Please feel free to discuss further 
>additions that could be necessary in the future.
>
>Florence Devouard

I had suggested Stephen Gaskin in correspondence with Jimbo, but while I did receive a favorable reply from Stephen, no response from Jimbo.

Fred