[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

[Anthony]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>  > 2008/4/30 Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com>:
>  >
>  >>  I do not agree.  There are more types of people in the world than
>  >>  Wikipedians and people whose "first inclination" is "money or power".
>  >>  As a fine example, consider Eben Moglen, longtime attorney and board
>  >>  member for the Free Software Foundation:
>  >>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen
>  >>  Eben would bring a wealth of experience to our board, and anyone who
>  >>  imagines that his motives for taking part in this would be "money or
>  >>  power" simply does not know Eben and his long history.
>  >
>  >
>  > Excellent! So when are we drafting him? :-D
>
>  Heh, he is just one random example, there are many like him.
>
Is he interested?  If not, then he's not a good example.  If so, then
why doesn't he start participate on the mailing lists, and become
involved in the community?  Note that Brian said "with no editing
experience and no involvement in the community", not just "not a
Wikipedian".