[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

[effe iets anders]

2008/4/27, Tim Landscheidt <tim op tim-landscheidt.de>:

>   Personally, I would not mind if the current board's terms
>  end 2099 as long as the servers are running, MediaWiki is
>  maintained and developed and the financial conduct does not
>  cross any legal limits.
>
>
>  Tim

I am not sure how to read this, but I would like to state that the
mission of the Foundation (and actually of the Movement, which is much
more important) is much broader then that. If we would only care about
the servers, software and legal limits, I would very seriously wonder
why we are continuing, because Free knowledge is about much more then
that.

There are roughly four aspects of Free Knowledge in the game here.
Creating, Maintaining, Gathering (but not creating yourself) and
spreading. All those are of major importance. To create Free
Knowledge, you need a community (which you have to maintain) and good
infrastructure (ie, software), to maintain the Free Knowlegde you need
both a Community and the Technical things (ie, servers). to gather you
need much more contacts and goodwill, knowledge of local customs etc,
and to spread, you need again another set of skills and resources.

So please let's be proud on our mission, and try to work it out in
it's full glory.

BR, Lodewijk