[Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

[Casey Brown]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I really fail to see how being an advisory board member could in any
> sense create a conflict of interest. As the term very well describes it,
> advisory board members are merely advisors.... not decision makers.
> Just as *any* community member is also an advisor to the Wikimedia
> Foundation staff.

Thank you, Florence.  Other people did have the same question:
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/#comment-6230>,
so it's definitely a valid question and I'm glad we got that
clarified.

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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023