On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Gregory Kohs<[email protected]> wrote: > Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation > > > +++++++ > > Ah, yes... the other shoe drops. This is similar to the time when Amazon > invested $10 million in Wikia, Inc., but they insisted on installing Jeffrey > Blackburn from Amazon ( > http://www.muckety.com/Query?SearchResult=30740&SearchResult=97356&graph=MucketyMap?_r=2D) > onto the Wikia board of directors. You don't want to throw $10 > million at > something without having someone on the "inside" to pull a few strings. > > Thus, we see why Halprin now sits on the WMF board. It's to keep an eye on > the $2 million. And all "transparently" announced on the very same day! > Bonus that Halprin also probably oversees the part of the $4 million that > Omidyar invested in Wikia, whose co-founder (Jimmy Wales) might be sitting > next to Halprin at the next board meeting, or whose OTHER co-founder (Angela > Beesley) might be found "advising" the WMF board from the position of chair > of the WMF Advisory Board. > > If you're having trouble envisioning a Venn diagram of this arrangement, let > me try to help you. Imagine a few grains of rice (Jimbo and the WMF > board). Then imagine the color white (Halprin). Imagine some tasty > flavored sauce (Beesley). Then visualize a guy lining up the yummy rice on > his fork (Omidyar Network). > > -- > Gregory Kohs > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
Wow. Just....wow. Wikimedia, this really really doesn't look good. Regardless of how it's intended, it REALLY doesn't look good. -Chad _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
