Dear FDC Advisory Group members,
Thank you again for all of the time and thoughtfulness you brought to our weekend working session in San Francisco and via video. From our perspective, the meeting was a tremendous success, and I hope you feel that it was an effective use of your time. If you’ve been following the development of the FDC proposal and associated templates on Meta, you’ll know that much of what we deliberated and discussed has made its way into the draft proposal– so you truly have contributed to make this work better.
I wanted to highlight for you the immediate next steps for this process. Bridgespan and the WMF team have be making adjustments to the FDC proposal. Yesterday, we did a thorough simulated walk-through of the process and refined a number of areas to address some process challenges that presented themselves. On 29 June, Sue will submit her formal recommendation for the Board of Trustees consideration. If you are able to, please review the current draft proposal [1] and provide feedback on the talk page [2].
I’m glad that several of you will be at Wikimania (sadly I won't, but a strong WMF contingent will), and I hope that there will be an opportunity there for those who have volunteered to hold an information/discussion session on the FDC process, as I’m sure many who are attending will be curious about it. Please let me know if there is anything you need from us to support you in preparing for this.
Finally, we had tentatively discussed having two more Advisory Group teleconference calls, one in mid-July and one in mid-August. It’s my sense, at this point, that it would be best for us to continue to engage instead, on Meta, where others can participate in the conversation. The logistics of conference calls makes it difficult to have a quality discussion. Bridgespan may reach out to some of you regarding specific ares we'd like your advice. Beyond that, we don’t think we need to schedule another group meeting at this time. Please do let me know if you have questions on this or would suggest otherwise.
I look forward to our continued work together to develop this process, and appreciate all of the contributions you have made thus far.
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Draft_FDC_Propo...
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Draft_FDC_...
Best,
Barry