{"id":609,"date":"2009-08-26T21:32:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2009-08-26T21:32:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:32:42","slug":"mark-shuttleworth-nominated-to-the-new-sabc-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/mark-shuttleworth-nominated-to-the-new-sabc-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Shuttleworth nominated to the new SABC Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markshuttleworth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/marksitting.jpg\" \/>I just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Content\/SouthAfrica\/News\/1059\/adebf03e5e004f94980e39b3ed74cb6c\/26-08-2009%2009-07\/Nominees_for_new_SABC_board\">read<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markshuttleworth.com\/biography\">Mark<\/a> has been nominated to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/portal\/site\/sabc\/\">SABC<\/a> board.&nbsp; Although I think that the SABC needs somebody like Mark on their board and that he would do a stirling job, I doubt whether Mark would accept a nomination like this with all the things he is involved in.&nbsp; Being on the SABC board is probably almost a full time job these days with the mess that the SABC is in and I cannot see Mark leaving some of his duties at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonical.com\/\">Canonical<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> to join the SABC board. <\/p>\n<p>I might be totally wrong here and who knows, maybe Mark has allready agreed to this.&nbsp; Would love to hear his comments about it.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable names is Max du Preez, Mimi Coertze, Cliff Saunders and World Cup CEO Danny Jordaan.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mark%20shuttleworth\" rel=\"tag\">mark shuttleworth<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntu<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/canonical\" rel=\"tag\">canonical<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sabc\" rel=\"tag\">sabc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read that Mark has been nominated to the SABC board.&nbsp; Although I think that the SABC needs somebody like Mark on their board and that he would do a stirling job, I doubt whether Mark would accept a <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/mark-shuttleworth-nominated-to-the-new-sabc-board\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Mark Shuttleworth nominated to the new SABC Board<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[372,478,479,550],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa","category-ubuntu","tag-canonical","tag-mark-shuttleworth","tag-sabc","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}