[Foundation-l] Volunteer Council - A shot for a resolution

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
So I did not get this point across. People of other languages and cultures
contribute to our projects. You should however not try to represent them all
in one big representative body. It does not work and even worse you can
continue to split further based on all kinds of demographics. A Dutch
catholic has a different view point then a Dutch protestant, a Dutchman from
Friesland is utterly different from a Dutchman from Amsterdam or Limburg,
Zeeland or Westfriesland. We cannot have them all be represented in the
proposed WMF council and consequently we should not. We can have them all be
represented in our projects and we should.

I hope you can are happy when it is expressed like this ?
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>
wrote:

> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > not help us achieve our goals. Our goal is to provide people with free
> > knowledge. The representation of people of "other" languages and the
> > representation of cultural backgrounds be they national, religious or
> > otherwise is only a method to ensure that our neutral point of view is
> > maintained.
>
> I disagree profoundly. People from various cultures contribute not only
> more POVs about existing free knowledge, but also more free knowledge,
> about their cultures first of all.
>
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