Listening and fact-gathering phase.

Engaging the Stakeholders

  • Have a chat with Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation, Inc. and listen what he's got to tell about the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia and other projects.
  • Have a chat with professor Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons Corporation and listen what he's got to tell about the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia and other projects.
    Alternatively an interview has been held with Mike Linsvayer from Creative Commons
  • Have a chat with Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery, a non-departmental governmental organization in London UK, and listen what he's got to tell about the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia and other projects.
  • Have a chat with Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, and listen what he's got to tell about the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia and other projects.
  • Have a chat with Hans Strikwerda, professor of organization and organizational change (internal governance) at the University of Amsterdam, and listen what he's got to tell about the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia and other projects.
    Alternatively an interview has been held with Misiek Piskorski a Harvard Business School professor.
  • Have a chat with Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association, and listen what he's got to tell about the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia and other projects.
  • Have a chat with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and listen what he's got to tell about the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia and other projects. Wath his keynote speech 10 July 2009 on the future of the web: new users will access through phones with a small resolution low band width webbrowser.
  • Have a chat with an official of the Chinese government, and listen what the Chinese government got to tell about the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia and other projects.
  • ... your key player here
  • ... some significant ladies as well