[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

[Gordon Joly]

At 15:17 -0400 28/4/08, David Goodman wrote:
>The staff of this particular project is indeed working in order to
>facilitate the work of the editors in the project. There is no other
>reason for their role. This facilitation is extremely important, and i
>do not want to appear to downgrade it. We do need some monetary and
>legal and technical support and coordination, and, at our size, it
>cannot be in practice done on a purely voluntary basis, but requires a
>few dedicated professionals.
>
>The board, however, are not the staff. They exists as a legally
>responsible body to make the official formulation of policy--for the
>benefit of the project.  The project itself is the work of the editors
>(in the broad sense, including the programmers and so forth).  To the
>extent they do so in accordance with the aims of the people actually
>working on the project, they do it correctly., The best people to
>determine this are not themselves, but those who are doing the actual
>work and development.
>
>

So, is there seat on the board for the programmers who maintain Mediawiki?

Gordo

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