Interviews

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For the past several months, members of the Bridgespan Group--the non-profit consulting firm working with the Foundation during the strategic planning process--have been conducting interviews with Advisory Board members, Board of Trustees members, external experts, and Wikimedia Foundation staff. These interviews were conducted to gather insights that could provide the starting point for a community discussion on Where should we go? and for the task forces. This page is a repository for these interviews.

Interviews/Requests -- Post requests for people to interview here.

Summary of interview themes

You can find a summary of themes emerging from these interviews here. Please update these themes as additional interviews are carried out.

Advisory Board interviews

• Angela Beesley Starling
• Ward Cunningham
• Melissa Hagemann
• Mitch Kapor
• Neeru Khosla
• Benjamin Mako Hill
• Teemu Leinonen
• Wayne Mackintosh
• Roger McNamee
• Florence Nibart-Devouard
• Achal Prabhala
• Clay Shirky
• Ethan Zuckerman

Board of Trustees interviews

• Ting Chen
• Samuel Klein
• Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia

External experts interviews

• Mark Andrews, Senior Director, US Operations, Habitat for Humanity International
• Adrio Bacchetta, independent consultant on global non-profit organizational management
• Jono Bacon, Community Manager Ubuntu
• Mitchell Baker and John Lilly, chair of Mozilla Foundation and CEO of Mozilla Corporation, respectively
• Brian Behlendorf, former head of Apache Software Foundation
• Ed Chi, researcher at Palo Alto Research Center
• Paul Gilding, former CEO, Greenpeace International
• Eric Goldman, Santa Clara University law professor and researcher
• Jack Herrick, founder of wikiHow
• Danny Horn, project manager at Wikia
• Jon Huggett, former Bridgespan partner, with focus in international NGOs
• Beth Kanter, experienced in social media, non-profits, and fundraising
• Stephen King, Omidyar Network
• Rima Kupryte, from eIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries)
• Andrew Lih, author of The Wikipedia Revolution
• Mike Linksvayer, Vice President of Creative Commons
• Karen Magee, former CEO at PlanetOut
• Carolyn Miles, COO and Executive Vice President, Save the Children US
• Stormy Peters, Executive Director at GNOME Foundation
• Misiek Piskorski, Harvard Business School professor and researcher
• Lova Rakotomalala, Blogger for Global Voices
• Joseph Reagle, follower of open source communities
• Michael Riksen, Vice President of Policy & Representation at NPR
• Betsy Scolnik, Director of Content and Distribution at Gates Foundation
• José Felipe Ortega Soto, transcript (no illustrations), researcher from LibreSoft
• Carl Stepp, journalism professor at the University of Maryland
• Mark Surman, ED of the Mozilla Foundation
• Matt Thompson, Online Community Manager (familiar with next-generation news sources) at Knight Foundation
• Ken Weber, COO, ONE
• Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
• Interview/surveys with Chinese bloggers, conducted by the China Task Force

Staff interviews

• Sue Gardner, Executive Director
• Mike Godwin, General Counsel
• Rob Halsell, IT manager
• Véronique Kessler, Chief Financial and Operating Officer
• Erik Moeller, Deputy Director
• Rand Montoya, Head of Community Giving
• Trevor Parscal, WMF developer
• Jennifer Riggs, former Chief Program Officer
• Frank Schulenburg, Head of Public Outreach
• Brion Vibber, former Chief Technical Officer
• Tim Starling, Mediawiki developer
• Kul Wadhwa, Head of Business Development
• Jay Walsh, Head of Communications
• Erik Zachte, Data Analyst