This is all fascinating and concerning. Most concerning to me is the presence on the board of someone actually on Google's payroll right now. How can Denny not be fatally conflicted in all - or most - board deliberations that involve broad strategy - especially but not only to do with WikiData?
Anthony Cole I'm on the board of Wiki Project Med Foundation. Anthony Cole On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Legoktm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/05/2016 08:01 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > > I note we now have on the board: > > > > * Jimmy Wales, who has served as a member of Google's "Advisory Council" > > * Denny Vrandecic, who is a Google employee > > * Guy Kawasaki, who has served as special advisor to the CEO of the > > Motorola business unit of Google > > * Kelly Battles of Bracket Computing, which partners with Google Cloud > > Platform > > * Arnnon Geshuri, who served as Senior Director of HR and Staffing at > Google > > > > Did I miss anyone? > > I think you missed all the board members who have Google set as their > browser's default search engine instead of using DuckDuckGo[1]. > > But really, I think you should be paying attention to Facebook. We are > reliant upon HHVM to run MediaWiki, which is developed by them, as well > as Phabricator for bug tracking, which was originally developed by them. > Furthermore, our current hardware officer[2] is a Facebook employee. > > [1] https://duckduckgo.com/ > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Officer > > -- Legoktm > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
