[Foundation-l] foundation-l Notice of the results of the WMF Board of Trustees election

GerardM gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 03:38:17 UTC 2007


:)
Thanks

On 7/18/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Ilario Valdelli wrote:
>
> >I agree that we need more diversity, but in a world based on
> >competition with a system of vote based on competition we cannot look
> >for more philanthropic aims.
> >
> It's hard to compete with The Will to Power.  I think that there is an
> underlying zeitgeist in favour of collaborative systems, but the
> experience of that model on a wide scale is very limited.  The path of
> least resistance is to depend on familiar techniques; anything else
> seems counterintuitive.
>
> >In a wikipedian structure based on freedom, opening and participation
> >we are applying an anamorphic skeleton which has taking its own shape.
> >
> Our theories do favour freedom, but the greatest threat to that freedom
> is the human tendency is to protect a fixed vision to the point of
> stagnancy.  In nature, the octopus is a great example of an animal that
> has been successful without a skelton.
>
> Ec
>
>
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