[Foundation-l] Would you consider being on the Board?

[Fred Bauder]

Tight control of "volunteers" is standard operating practice at  
almost all nonprofits, a management practice that can only produce  
big trouble here. Some insight into how our process works is necessary.

Fred

On Jun 9, 2006, at 6:28 AM, Kelly Martin wrote:

> On 6/9/06, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I expect anyone serious about joining the Board this year to be
>> reading this mailing list. They couldn't possibly have a thorough
>> enough understanding of what the Foundation is about without doing
>> that, and for a community representative (as opposed to the outsiders
>> who may be appointed), I do expect them to be participating in
>> foundation issues before they're appointed, as well as being  
>> active on
>> the projects.
>>
>
> Actually I think the Board could profit substantially from bringing in
> some outsiders with experience in operating nonprofits but unsullied
> by exposure to the myriad wrong ways that we do things here at
> Wikimedia.
>
> Kelly
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