[Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/26 Sebastian Moleski <sebmol at gmail.com>:
> This may be a heretic question but I'd like to pose it anyway: why
> should it be necessary or appropriate for the Foundation to discuss
> this subject with the project communities? How does this appointment
> have any impact on the activities within the projects?

If the WMF board has no impact on the projects why does the WMF exist?
Wikimedia is a community driven movement, big decisions should be made
by the community.