[Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

[Brian]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de>wrote:
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>> Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
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>> >> > [...]
>> >> > 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.)
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>> >> Why? What's broken at the moment?
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>> > The English full-history dump, for one.
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>> And that would work if the WMF were a membership organiza-
>> tion? Interesting.
>>
>> Tim
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> If it were once again a membership organization it would imply that the
> Foundation had not reneged on the original vision without the ability of the
> community, which approved that vision, to provide input on the modified
> input. It would turn around the Foundation's usurping of community power. It
> would give each community member a voice.
>

Sorry, "input" is an overloaded word for me due to my occupation in neural
networks. I happen to be working with several "input layers" right now and
flubbed that entirely ;) But it should say, "to provide input on the
modified vision."