Editing Talk:Independent board

The bad example is completely true, despite the false statement in the log - see [[Talk:Wikimedia corruption]].  It's entirely true to say that:

Some, e.g. [[Wikimedia]], refuse to have such a [[board]], loading it instead with insiders, i.e. from Bomis. One reason to avoid having such a board is to ensure that "friendly" people are in charge if their pet projects are someday audited. Very reasonably, most people refuse to contribute large amounts to such groups who avoid scrutiny of truly independent directors.

Facts:

- "[[Wikimedia]]" has got a few tens of thousands of dollars while well run projects with credible independent boards, like [http://rosettaproject.org Rosetta Project], get millions to do similar work (like its [[all-language dictionary]] more effectively

-  clearly Davis, Shell and Wales are "friendly" and that's why they're the majority on this "board"

- Wales has refused for YEARS to even consider an independent board, having been forced to hold elections by many people he can't run the project without, but having originally proposed to simply appoint the whole board himself.

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Candidates for [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] board might include:

[[Richard Stallman]] (founder) 
OR [[Eben Moglen]] (General Counsel, [[Free Software Foundation]]) and 
Professor of Law & Legal History
Columbia Law School, 
435 West 116th Street, 
New York, New York 10027 
voice: 212-854-8382 
fax: 212-854-7946 
Email: moglen@columbia.edu 

[[Marianina Olcott]]
Associate Professor/Humanities Program Coordinator 
Humanities Department 
San Jose State University 
One Washington Square 
San Jos�, California USA, 95192 - 0092 
Bldg FO 118 
Email: molcott@email.sjsu.edu 
Phone: 408-924-4455 
Fax: 408-924-4576 

[[Paul Jones]] (http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/) (Vitae (http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/Vitae.html)) 
Director, the iBiblio (http://www.ibiblio.org) digital archive at UNC Chapel Hill (http://www.unc.edu) 
Founding board member of [[The American Open Technology Consortium]] (http://www.aotc.info/) 
Member, board of trustees, Chapel Hill Public Library (http://townhall.townofchapelhill.org/library/) 
Email: paul_jones@unc.edu 
Phone: 919-962-7600 
Fax: 919-962-8071 
CB #3456, Manning Hall 
UNC-Chapel Hill 
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-345 

[[Lawrence Lessig]], founder [[Creative Commons]] and
Professor of Law 
Stanford Law School 
Crown Quadrangle 
559 Nathan Abbott Way 
Stanford, CA 94305-8610 
voice: (650) 725-2565 
Email: lessig@pobox.com 

[[Ward Cunningham]]
Refined [[wiki]] [[group editing]] into present form from prior "repository" and "intranet" tools

7830 SW 40th Avenue 
Portland, Oregon 97219 
Phone: 503-245-5633 
Email: ward@c2.com 

AVOID:  [[James Wales]], [[Howard Rheingold]], [[Sunir Shah]], [[Daniel Mayer]], [[Erik Moeller]], [[Tim Starling]], [[Angela Beesley]] or any other [[virtual community]] fanatic believer, nor any participant in [[sysop vandalism]] of [[GFDL corpus]], [[libel]] or [[perjury]] and so on.