Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC annual plan grant recommendations for 2014-2015 Round 2

-- Claudia Garád Geschäftsführerin Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens www.wikimedia.at http://www.wikimedia.at Am 01.06.2015 um 17:18 schrieb Dariusz Jemielniak: > Hello Wikimedians, > > The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets twice a year to help make > decisions about how to effectively allocate movement funds to achieve the > Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. [1] Just before the > Wikimedia Conference, the FDC met in Berlin to deliberate on the five > proposals submitted for this Round. [2] We thank these organizations for > their hard work on their annual plans and their proposals. > > The FDC has now posted our recommendations on Meta for Round 2 2014-2015 on > the annual plan grants to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. [3] > Thanks to the leadership of the FDC’s two Board Representatives (Maria > Sefidari and Frieda Brioschi), the WMF Board will review the > recommendations and then make their decision on them by 1 July 2015. > > This round, the six proposals were submitted to the FDC. One proposal was > withdrawn before we met to deliberate. We recommended allocations totaling > roughly $1,248,913 USD for these five organizations. Note that all > allocations were made in local currency. A total of $5,060,913 was > allocated in both rounds in this year (2014-2015). The remaining $939,087 > from the FDC’s $6 million budget will be returned to the Wikimedia > Foundation. > > Before our face-to-face deliberations, the FDC reviewed the proposals in > careful detail. We also reviewed staff assessments and analysis on impact, > finances, and programs, as well as community comments on the proposals. We > also took into consideration the discussion pages of relevant documents. > > There is a formal process for grant applicants to submit complaints or > appeals about these recommendations. Here are the steps for both: > > Any organization that would like to submit an appeal on the FDC’s Round 2 > recommendation should submit it to the Board representatives to the FDC by > 23:59 UTC on 8 July 2015 in accordance with the appeal process outlined in > the FDC Framework. A formal appeal to challenge the FDC’s recommendation > should be in the form of a 500-or-fewer word summary directed to the two > non-voting WMF Board representatives to the FDC (Maria Sefidari and Frieda > Brioschi). The appeal should be submitted on-wiki, [4] and must be > submitted by the Board Chair of a funding-seeking applicant. The Board will > publish its decision on this and all recommendations by 1 July 2015. > > Complaints to the ombudsperson about the FDC process can be filed by anyone > with the Ombudsperson and can be made any time. The complaint should be > submitted on wiki, as well. [5] The ombudsperson will publicly document the > complaint, and investigate as needed. > > The FDC would like to thank Wikimedia Deutschland for hosting this Round’s > deliberations. We appreciate the team that worked hard to make our > deliberations meeting a smooth and successful event. > > Finally, we offer our sincere thanks to the six organizations who submitted > annual plan grant proposals to the FDC. > > On behalf of the FDC, > > "pundit" Dariusz Jemielniak (FDC Chair) > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG > > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2 > > [3] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/20... > > [4] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Appeals_to_the_Board_on_the_recom... > > [5] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Complaints_about_the_FDC_process > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe