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

[Nikola Smolenski]

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> 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.

OK. I understood that you meant that within the projects, not in the 
council.

> I hope you can are happy when it is expressed like this ?

I wasn't unhappy to begin with.

> 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.