2009/8/25 Anthony <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 2009/8/25 Nathan <[email protected]>: >> > This is good news. It doesn't seem strange to me at all that a major >> donor >> > gains a limited voice on the Board, particularly when the donor can offer >> > expertise and connections in addition to funding. It also serves as a >> more >> > plausible explanation for Halprin's appointment than the conspiracy >> theory >> > about Wikia, corrupt practices and misuse of tax-free funds. >> >> The cash is obviously useful, and I think this kind of arrangement is >> fairly common in the charity world, but it will inevitably cause drama >> in the community. > > > That fight was lost years ago when the Wikimedia Foundation became a > non-membership organization. I doubt this is "fairly common" among > membership organizations. Wales was right when he said that the community > is irrelevant.
When did Jimmy say that? I rather suspect you are taking something he said out of context... >> We voted for these Board members, in most cases repeatedly; it does them a >> > disservice to essentially accuse them of abusing the trust granted them >> by >> > the community. >> >> I don't recall an intention to sell seats on the board being mentioned >> in any of their candidate statements... > > > We don't even know (yet?) which board members voted for and which voted > against this arrangement. We may yet find out. Minutes of board meetings are being published again (after a period of secrecy). _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
