[Foundation-l] Akahele: Omidyar venturing out

[Anthony]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Sage Ross
<ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com<ragesoss%2Bwikipedia at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Anthony<wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > If Omidyar Networks had not offered a grant, but offered to put Halprin
> on
> > the board, would the board have accepted it?  I don't see anyone with
> > knowledge of the situation saying no.
>
> I had the impression that WMF had been courting Omidyar Network for
> some time; it's hard for me to imagine that a potential grant wasn't
> part of the context right from the beginning.  But indeed, we're
> mostly speculating here.