What do we agree on: Advocacy TF recommendations

Very interesting. The board are (mostly) elected by editors but are there to protect the aims of the Foundation and the interests of the readers and the future readers - the beneficiaries of the foundation projects - rather than the editors and staff - the foundation's paid and unpaid helpers. The corollary of this is that the board have a duty to close down any group of editors who try and steer a project in a direction which does not serve the aims of the foundation.

The other side of the mission of the board, as I saw it, was an outward facing role, representing the foundation to the rest of the world, including future readers. This is a role that, till now, has largely been carried out by Jimmy Wales. Thinking about it in the light of the comment above maybe public relations/publicity isn't a different role after all but is rather just another aspect of the general work of the Foundation to be shared by the board, the chapters, the staff and others who share our aim but never have a formal connection to the foundation; different from editing the content but as important to achievement of the the foundation's aim. We need to bring the strategy proposals back to that aim:

  1. To make all of human knowledge
  2. available to everyone.
Filceolaire19:22, 14 March 2010

The current and future editors (including all of the readers who would make excellent editors but don't currently see themselves that way) are a primary beneficiary of the Foundation and its mission.

"The sum of all knowledge" is a synthesized summary that does not exist in the void, to be gathered and distributed. One of our major successes has been sketching a scope for that summation, and starting to fill in the details. This would not be possible without a diverse, motivated, and talented community driving the Projects forward, and to the extent that we have not yet succeeded, it is often a reflection of imbalance or incompleteness in our editing community.

Sj02:42, 19 March 2010