Thanks, Sydney and Pine.
This is timely, as Resources is currently re-vamping their instructions for grant proposals (including research-focused grants). So it's a good time to hammer out our policy and process here.
Max: if you're willing to ping me off-list and relate some of the details of your conversation, that will help me follow up on the particular issue you're facing right now.
I want this to be clear and easy for grantees going forward—if WMF is funding research, we should be prepared to support the dissemination of that research in a way that aligns with our values. In the future, I would like to see grantees budget anticipated OA fees into their requests, and a process for vetting this during the proposal review period.
I know there has been some conversation between Research and Resources around this issue in the past, but I don't know if there were decisions made... more likely I'll need to start it back up again. We're all still working out the kinks in the OA policy (even staff researchers are trying to understand the ramifications for our work).
I'll make sure to notify this list when I learn more.
Jonathan