[Foundation-l] Akahele: Omidyar venturing out

Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 00:51:19 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Anthony<wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

>
> If Omidyar Networks had not offered a grant, but offered to put Halprin on
> the board, would the board have accepted it?  I don't see anyone with
> knowledge of the situation saying no.

I had the impression that WMF had been courting Omidyar Network for
some time; it's hard for me to imagine that a potential grant wasn't
part of the context right from the beginning.  But indeed, we're
mostly speculating here.

-Sage




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