[Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

[Anthony]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de>wrote:

> Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> 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 English full-history dump, for one.
>
> And that would work if the WMF were a membership organiza-
> tion? Interesting.


I have no idea if it would or wouldn't, but it's certainly within the power
of the board to pressure Sue to hire a CTO sooner rather than later.  It's
certainly also within the power of the board to ensure that budgets are set
honestly and that the money allocated to technology is spent on technology,
not on the office of the executive director.