CZ:Nomination page/Management Council/Russell D. Jones
I was recruited in 2007 to join CZ by Larry Sanger when he was visiting my university campus. I was most impressed by and am most encouraged by Larry's vision for an online republic of letters. As a member of the Charter Committee, this was the vision that I sought to bring about.
I believe that the charter, as constructed, gives us a framework to establish a fair and just, as well as civil, online self-governing community of knowledge. It also provides us with a platform for growth and change.
The Management Council is responsible for the financial, technical, and legal leadership of CZ. I have served for four years as a trustee and president of a U.S. non-profit (Eastern Michigan University Federation of Teachers) with $60k annual budget. I am currently a trustee of the Chelsea Area Historical Society, another non-profit. So I have the financial and managerial experience. My technical credentials are that I run a Mediawiki site (EDiT) and am the webmaster for two other web sites.
If elected to the Management Council, I think we have three main jobs (among others to be sure):
- establish the financial stability of CZ through fund-raising and partnerships;
- guarantee the independence of CZ through the creation of a corporate non-profit owned and controlled by the citizens.
- recruit more participants.
I have published and given presentations on using open knowledge resources in higher education.
I have been an active editor in the History Workgroup and have had a hand in every history article approval for about eighteen months now. I have been an editor since 2008, I have also served on the Editorial Council for the last two years. I worked with Chris Day to push the Sub-Workgroup policy through the Editorial Council which has been the last editorial council resolution taken up (and this was over a year ago).
I served on the Charter Drafting Committee and understand the rationale and reasoning behind the choices made for its structure. I also understand our expectations for how the charter government should work.
See my other nomination for more information.