Archive:Press releases/Advisory Board/日本語

Template:Translation フロリダ、セント・ピータースバーグ：ウィキメディア財団はAdvisory Boardの創設を発表します。Advisory Boardは理事会に助言を与えます。それぞれの専門分野でよく知られた人々を集め、このたび新設されたAdvisory Boardは、ウィキペディアの運営団体である財団に対し、長期的戦略計画を含めた、さまざまな分野における専門知識と助言を与えます。Advisory Boardの議長／委員長はアンジェラ・ビーズリーが務めます。ビーズリーはウィキメディア財団の前理事であり、ウィキア社の共同設立者です。

フロランス・ドゥヴォアール・ウィキメディア財団理事長は次のように語っています。「ウィキメディアを運営する仲間に、このような素晴らしい才能ある人々を迎えることができるとは、この上ない幸運です。Advisory Boardと協同し、その能力と知識を活用することを望みます」

以下、Advisory Boardの構成員をご紹介します。

• Angela Beesley, Co-Founder of Wikia and former member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation

• Ward Cunningham, Director of Committer Community Development of the Eclipse Foundation, and Co-Founder of Cunningham & Cunningham.

• Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons and public lead of Creative Commons South Africa.

• Melissa Hagemann, Manager of Open Access Initiative, Information Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI)/Soros foundations.

• Danny Hillis, Co-Founder of Thinking Machines Corp., Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Applied Minds, Inc, and Co-Founder of the Long Now Foundation.

• Mitch Kapor, Co-Founder of Lotus Development Corp., Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mitchell Kapor Foundation, and Open Source Applications Foundation. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

• Joris Komen, Executive Director of SchoolNet Namibia, and former bird curator at the National Museum of Nambia. Komen has played an intrinsic part in promoting the computerization of African museum collections.

• Rebecca MacKinnon, Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre and co-founder of Global Voices. MacKinnon is also the former Bureau Chief of CNN Beijing and CNN Tokyo.

• Wayne Mackintosh, Education specialist, eLearning and ICT Policy at the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver

• Benjamin Mako Hill, Debian hacker and author of the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible and The Official Ubuntu Book. Currently, Hill works in the Computing Culture group of the MIT Media Lab.

• Erin McKean, Chief Consulting Editor, American Dictionaries, for Oxford University Press, and Editor of VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly.

• Trevor Neilson, Partner in the Endeavor Group, and former Director of Special Projects at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

• Achal Prabhala, Researcher and writer based in Bangalore, India, who works on intellectual property rights.

• Jay Rosen, Associate Professor and former Chair of New York University's Department of Journalism. Founder of NewAssignment.Net and author of PressThink.

• Clay Shirky, faculty at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and former Chair of the Library of Congress’s Digital Preservation Working Group.

• Peter Suber, Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Senior Researcher at SPARC, and principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

• Raoul Weiler, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and Chair and Co-founder of the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome.

• Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of Global Voices, and research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

To view complete bios, please visit http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a US-registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity. It runs the websites for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.