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

[Anthere]

The Cunctator wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Lord Voldemort <lordbishopvoldemort at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 6/19/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Comments on these names are welcome... as are further ideas of course!
>>
>>Hey, didn't I hear Bill Gates will be free soon. ;-)  --LV
> 
> 
> 
> I'd LOVE to see Wikipedia used to force Creative Commons and FSF to work
> together. We're the 800-pound (or 800000-pound) gorilla in the category
> "users of the GFDL" and I'd really like to see formal license compatibility.
> 
> Using the Wikimedia Foundation board as a mechanism to do so would be
> wonderful.
> 
> Other suggestions (always interested in non-American equivalents):
> 
>    - Michael Hart or Greg Newby, Project Gutenberg (Newby is *great*)
>    - Karen G. Schneider, kgs at bluehighways.com , (former?) Internet
>    Librarian for American Libraries Online,
> http://www.ala.org/alonline/and the Coordinator of the Librarian's
> Index to the Internet (LII),
>    http://lii.org/ (IM: LIIchief)
>    - Roy Tennant, http://escholarship.cdlib.org/rtennant/ , creator and
>    editor of Current Cites, http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/
>    - Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Publishing (if we want to get into making a
>    dead-tree version)
>    - Larry Page / Sergey Brin
>    - Al Gore
> 
> I don't know the right names, but someone who's been really good at
> advocating for improved resources/outreach into the third world, third world
> civil rights etc. would also be a great addition outside of the "obvious"
> choices.
> 
> I'm reminded that when Steve Jobs wanted to start Apple Stores, he got the
> CEO of The Gap on the board--someone who knows nothing about computing, but
> everything about retail. So what would be the equivalent for the Wikimedia
> mission? I would think that, say, a former top UN official could be very
> good for Wikimedia; someone who would know everyone in all the countries of
> the world and know how to manage a multicultural coalition. Kofi Annan?
> Madeleine Albright? I'm sure people can come up with better ideas.

Nod.

One problem I have with your list and with Jimbo's list is that they 
propose very few great candidates from Korea or Madagascar.

ant