[Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation

[Delphine Ménard]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 21:26, Gregory Maxwell<gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Guillaume Paumier<guillom.pom at gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> It is very common for members of the board of a non-profit
>> organisation to donate money to support this organisation.
>
> It was my understanding that the appointment was of Matt Halprin, not
> the Omidyar Network.
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Robert Rohde<rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> However, in this case, even if we
>> assume the seat was outright "bought" for $2M, I don't think there are
>
> I'm not sure why people are behaving as though there is any ambiguity
> on this point.
> The Omidyar Network agreed to make a donation to the Wikimedia
> Foundation with the understood condition that their representative
> would receive a seat on the board.

If you're going to be consistent with your first comment (above:
appointment is of Matt Halprin, not ON), then the word
"representative" is probably not the right one.

(not denying any connection or anything, just pointing out semantics)

Delphine


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