[Foundation-l] Restricting Appointed members (Proposal).

[Milos Rancic]

On 3/17/08, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>  The Wikimedia Foundation does not have members. Making the WMF a member
>  based organisation is NOT what is being proposed. What is proposed is giving
>  the community a way in which it can make for a more coherent way of running
>  the projects. When this means that there is a need for involvement of the
>  WMF organisation, it will be something that needs to be discussed with the
>  organisation and possibly with the board. When you make this proposal a
>  power play, you will not achieve what you hope to achieve.

However, we are voting for Board's members, even Wikimedia is not
member-based organization.

>  I do not want to have our board or any body be dumbed down. Please, when we
>  are to chose people to represent us let them people who understand what the
>  f***k they are talking about and who understand what the impact is of what
>  is proposed and what is considered. The last thing we want is to have a
>  group of people, properly democratically elected, that do not have a clue
>  what it is that they are doing.

While politician's job is to have "a clue", politician's job is not to
do an expertize.