[Foundation-l] The role of the board

Mon Apr 18 10:00:25 UTC 2005

Chad Perrin wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:56:29PM -0400, Jimmy Wales wrote:
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>>Alternatively we can design processes which somehow guarantee diverse
>>representation at the board level.  This is not easy.
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>>This is particularly not easy because it would be undesirable from a
>>fast decision-making point of view to have a board of 75 people.  And so
>>long as we have a manageable group, of course it is hard to get proper
>>representation for different languages.
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>Yikes.  That sounds like the beginnings of the United States Congress.
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>Of course, we all know that CONgress is the antonym to PROgress.  Yes?
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It gave me visions of our very own electoral college.

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