Advisory Board

Wikimedia Foundation Board and Advisory Board meeting, Taipei, 2007.

Details of the current advisory board can be found at Wikimedia:Advisory Board.

Brief descriptions (for press releases)

• Angela Beesley Starling (Chair, Wikimedia Advisory Board; co-founder, Wikia)
• Ward Cunningham (Developer of the first wiki)
• Melissa Hagemann (Open access and open education advocate, Open Society Institute/Soros foundations)
• Mitch Kapor (Founder/Co-founder Lotus Development, EFF, Mozilla Foundation)
• Neeru Khosla (Co-founder, CK-12)
• Teemu Leinonen (Professor, Media Lab, Aalto University)
• Rebecca MacKinnon (Journalist; founder, Global Voices Online)
• Wayne Mackintosh (Director, Open Education Resource Foundation)
• Benjamin Mako Hill (Author, free software advocate)
• Roger McNamee (Venture capital, musician)
• Domas Mituzas (Facebook)
• Trevor Neilson (Partner, Global Philanthropy Group)
• Craig Newmark (Founder, Craigslist.org)
• Florence Nibart-Devouard (Former Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees; Consultant in Collaborative Media)
• Achal Prabhala (Researcher and writer)
• Clay Shirky (Associate Teacher, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU)
• Ethan Zuckerman (Research Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School)
• Jing Wang
• Mimi Ito
• Nhlanhla Mabaso

Meetings

There have been two meetings of the advisory board, at Wikimania 2007 and Wikimania 2008.

• 2007
  • /Meeting August 2007
  • /Meeting August 2007/agenda
  • /Meeting August 2007/Program
  • /Meeting August 2007/Notes
  • /Volunteerism
• 2008
  • /Meeting July 2008
  • /Meeting Outcomes 2008