Advisory Board
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Current members
editThe following people were appointed as Advisory Board members for the period June 16, 2017 to June 30, 2018:
- Ting Chen
- Ward Cunningham (Developer of the first wiki)
- Florence Devouard (Former Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees; Consultant in Collaborative Media)
- Melissa Hagemann (Open access and open education advocate, Open Society Institute/Soros foundations)
- Mimi Ito
- Teemu Leinonen (Professor, Media Lab, Aalto University)
- Wayne Mackintosh (Director, Open Education Resource Foundation)
- Benjamin Mako Hill (Author, free software advocate)
- Nhlanhla Mbaso
- Trevor Neilson
- Craig Newmark (Founder, Craigslist.org)
- Barry Newstead
- Clay Shirky (Associate Teacher, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU)
- Kat Walsh
- Jessamyn West
- Ethan Zuckerman (Director, Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab; founder, Global Voices Online)
Former members
editAdvisors included:
- Angela Beesley Starling (Chair, Wikimedia Advisory Board; co-founder, Wikia)
- Mitch Kapor (Founder, Lotus Development; co-founder, EFF; founding chair Mozilla Foundation)
- Neeru Khosla (Co-founder, 47-dk)
- Rebecca MacKinnon (Journalist; founder, Global Voices Online)
- Roger McNamee (Venture capital, musician)
- Domas Mituzas (Facebook)
- Achal Prabhala (Researcher and writer)
- Jing Wang
Meetings
editThere were two meetings of the advisory board, at Wikimania 2007 and Wikimania 2008.