[Foundation-l] Opinions/suggestions for "outside" members of the board?

Tue Jun 20 00:40:18 UTC 2006

On 6/19/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> Would I want Eben Moglen, RMS or Larry Lessig to vote on our copyright
> policies, or on what new project to approve, or on what personnel to
> hire? Most likely not. Would I want Mitch Kapor, a key advocate of
> Mozilla's current corporate approach, to vote on whether Wikipedia
> should allow advertising? Definitely not. Nor do these people bring
> truly different perspectives to our organization that we do not
> already have.
[snip]

Of course you don't.
Should we decide to accept someone who is qualified and experienced it
would preclude selecting you.