The job of the "Community Advocacy" bit of
"Legal and Community
Advocacy" is, as I understand it, to advocate for the community's
need within the Foundation, and act as a conduit to the community
for legal stuff.
That department and its predecessors have hired professional attorneys
to lobby on copyright and patent issues for several years on multiple
continents. Recently they have been active in many other legal
advocacy areas including international trade, for example. The process
by which those issues was selected has in the past had more to do than
what the Board of Trustees could agree on, resulting in a common
denominator fare less inclusive than typical volunteer opinions on
what is an is not important to them, their families, their local
communities, and the factors which determine the time and effort they
are able to contribute. Willful ignorance of such factors is not good
volunteer recruiting practice.
Their job is not to advocate for "reduction in
public school
class sizes"....
Is there any reason to think that reduction of public school class
sizes is not likely to result in more productive editors, with more
time to contribute, or that it would not attract quality volunteers
relative to taking no position on the question?