This is all fascinating and concerning. Most concerning to me is the presence on the board of someone actually on Google's payroll right now. How can Denny not be fatally conflicted in all - or most - board deliberations that involve broad strategy - especially but not only to do with WikiData?
Anthony Cole I'm on the board of Wiki Project Med Foundation.
Anthony Cole
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On 01/05/2016 08:01 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
I note we now have on the board:
- Jimmy Wales, who has served as a member of Google's "Advisory Council"
- Denny Vrandecic, who is a Google employee
- Guy Kawasaki, who has served as special advisor to the CEO of the
Motorola business unit of Google
- Kelly Battles of Bracket Computing, which partners with Google Cloud
Platform
- Arnnon Geshuri, who served as Senior Director of HR and Staffing at
Did I miss anyone?
I think you missed all the board members who have Google set as their browser's default search engine instead of using DuckDuckGo[1].
But really, I think you should be paying attention to Facebook. We are reliant upon HHVM to run MediaWiki, which is developed by them, as well as Phabricator for bug tracking, which was originally developed by them. Furthermore, our current hardware officer[2] is a Facebook employee.
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/ [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Officer
-- Legoktm
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