[Foundation-l] New board members and officers

[geni]

2009/8/25 Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>:
> We also appointed someone to one of the vacant expertise seats appointed
> by the board. His name is Matt Halprin, and in brief, Matt is with the
> Omidyar Network and a former eBay executive who was in charge of trust
> and safety there. Matt has met with a number of us over the past several
> months, and I invited him to join us in Buenos Aires and meet the entire
> board. The Omidyar Network is very interested in supporting our strategy
> development discussions, and I look forward to having Matt's experience
> and insight as we continue with the process. Matt's initial appointment
> is for a term until December 31, at which time it will be reviewed like
> the other appointed seats.

Omidyar Network? They were involved with a 4 million funding round for
wikia back in 2006 no?

http://web.archive.org/web/20060422054638/http://www.americanventuremagazine.com/news.php?newsid=941

Appointing yet another person with wikia links looks kinda dicey no?

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geni