[Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

[Tim Landscheidt]

Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> [...]
>>> The WMF as a membership organisation would be great, but I don't think
>>> it is practical. A better option (which I have discussed with a few
>>> poeple) would be having the chapters as members of the WMF and the
>>> community as members of the chapters. There are other global
>>> non-profits that work along those lines. (The International Federation
>>> of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, for example.)

>> Why? What's broken at the moment? The servers are running,
>> and I really cannot see how a different form of organization
>> would have any favourable impact on a few million people
>> writing the best free encyclopedia (*1) in this solar sys-
>> tem. Not to speak of this thing with the sum of all know-
>> ledge being shared by every single human being.

> I think most people want the WMF to do more than just keep the servers
> running, though. It is the extra stuff that depends on good
> governance.

I did not ask what you think other people want, I asked what
you think is broken at the moment and how that could be
mended by another form of organization.

Tim