[Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/28 Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de>:
> Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> The WMF as a membership organisation would be great, but I don't think
>> it is practical. A better option (which I have discussed with a few
>> poeple) would be having the chapters as members of the WMF and the
>> community as members of the chapters. There are other global
>> non-profits that work along those lines. (The International Federation
>> of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, for example.)
>
> Why? What's broken at the moment? The servers are running,
> and I really cannot see how a different form of organization
> would have any favourable impact on a few million people
> writing the best free encyclopedia (*1) in this solar sys-
> tem. Not to speak of this thing with the sum of all know-
> ledge being shared by every single human being.

I think most people want the WMF to do more than just keep the servers
running, though. It is the extra stuff that depends on good
governance.