Hi folks,

As you know, in July 2012 the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees asked me to set up the Funds Dissemination Committee, a volunteer-driven advisory committee created to make recommendations to the Board allocating funds for chapters and other Wikimedia movement entities. I did that, and the FDC has now been fully operational for a little more than a year.

As part of the FDC framework, I committed that after the FDC’s first year of operation I would create a report for the Board that documented the state of the FDC at that moment in time, and told the Board about any revisions we had made to the process as a result of stakeholder input during its first year.

The purpose of this note is to tell you that report is now posted. It’s here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Annual_report_on_the_Funds_Dissemination_Committee_process_2012-2013

If you’ve got comments on the report I’d suggest that rather than replying to this list, you leave them on the talk page. And, my thanks to everyone who contributed to the FDC's first year of operations, and also to the report :-)