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

[SJ]

For fun and nostalgia, and because half of the people mentioned below
are on the original list, here is a very old, speculative and
good-humoured meta discussion of an "ideal Wikipedia board" before
Wikimedia existed*.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_ideal_Wikipedia_board

These old discussions can be refreshing; WP and the WMF have followed
one course, but there were many other sister roads that might have
been followed, each with its own tone.

SJ

* The "less dreamy, but more practical, version" mentioned at the top
was something this (a cross between nostalgia and deja-vu... if you
look at the people involved in the conversation) :
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Archive1


On 6/19/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> To continue the ongoing board development conversation....
>
> 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.
>
> Larry Lessig - head of Creative Commons
>
> 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)
>
> Richard Stallman - needs no introduction
>
> Eben Moglen - main legal mastermind of the FSF
>
> Comments on these names are welcome... as are further ideas of course!
>
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