2016-01-06 8:52 GMT+01:00 Anthony Cole <[email protected]>: > 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? >
Are you suggesting the removal of another communitee selected board member ? Just checking :) > > 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> > -- Pierre-Selim _______________________________________________ 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>
