[Foundation-l] Opinions/suggestions for "outside" members of the board?

[James Hare]

Well Mr. Wales, if you believe these people have very good ideas for
Wikimedia (and they most likely do), then I really don't see the harm of
appointing them. However, has something like this worked with other
non-profit organizations?

Sincerely,
James Hare

On 6/19/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
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> To continue the ongoing board development conversation....
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> The board is considering adding some prominent person from outside the
> core Wikipedia community to the board and seeks brainstorming ideas of
> what type of person could be good, as well as mentions of names who we
> might want to approach.
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> Larry Lessig - head of Creative Commons
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> Mitch Kapor - head of Mozilla Foundation (Firefox), founder of EFF, and
> extremely passionate about the Wikipedia mission (and he edits
> Wikipedia, and he is absolutely fascinated by and supportive of our
> community model)
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> Richard Stallman - needs no introduction
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> Eben Moglen - main legal mastermind of the FSF
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> Comments on these names are welcome... as are further ideas of course!
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