[Foundation-l] the easy way or the less easy way

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Mon Jun 19 11:01:56 UTC 2006


Anthere wrote:
> The major benefit of "appointed" is there is more chance to get a united 
> team with complementary skills.
> The major drawback is to risk similar-thinking people and limit 
> diversity of view points.

Hmm, actually I view diversity of viewpoints as one of the strengths of
an appointment method.  It is easy for us to get people who think
exactly as we do, but it could be very interesting I think to find some
major important academic (as an example) to join the board to provide a
different perspective from what we have now.


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