[Foundation-l] foundation-l Notice of the results of the WMF Board of Trustees election

[Ray Saintonge]

Ilario Valdelli wrote:

>I agree that we need more diversity, but in a world based on
>competition with a system of vote based on competition we cannot look
>for more philanthropic aims.
>
It's hard to compete with The Will to Power.  I think that there is an 
underlying zeitgeist in favour of collaborative systems, but the 
experience of that model on a wide scale is very limited.  The path of 
least resistance is to depend on familiar techniques; anything else 
seems counterintuitive.

>In a wikipedian structure based on freedom, opening and participation
>we are applying an anamorphic skeleton which has taking its own shape.
>
Our theories do favour freedom, but the greatest threat to that freedom 
is the human tendency is to protect a fixed vision to the point of 
stagnancy.  In nature, the octopus is a great example of an animal that 
has been successful without a skelton.

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