Le 16/04/2014 14:13, Craig Franklin a écrit :
I don't think the message of having a bit of
discipline in your budget and
making value-for-money a prime consideration is at all a bad thing for
chapters to be doing. The way that the message was hammered in was at
times arrogant, aggressive, or plain out insulting, but the message itself
was a good one.
It actually appears that the message, let aside its form, had other
goals than the discipline in budget. This even peculiarly come across
the Ting Chen message, when he says: "The reason why I was worried was
the funding of WMF, not that of the chapters". These messages were
obviously "an effort to curtail chapter growth" (quoting
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_meetings/2013-11-24/FAQ which
however deny it). It certainly brought some "value-for-money
consideration" at the cost of huge volunteer time and efforts to fulfil
the requirement as well as impeded projects and activities development.
Large cash gifts made to third parties, in my view,
rarely
represent good value-for-money. All I ask for is a little consistency.
I would also posit that if WMF donors wanted to donate to a worthy project
like MariaDB, they'd donate to that rather than to the Foundation.
This point was addressed above: "other organizations [infrastructural
software] have much less visibility". I actually didn't know anything
about MariaDB before today...
Le 16/04/2014 14:05, David Gerard a écrit :
The solution would then appear to be to treat the
chapters better,
rather than others worse.
+++ !!
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