Lisa,
Thank you for sharing these exciting news and all the work the team has completed so far. I know I have spoken with many of our community members in the past about this important milestone in protecting our community's work long-term. I am looking forward to hearing more from everyone as we make this real.
Lila
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Lisa Gruwell lgruwell@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all-
For several years, the Wikimedia movement has been having discussions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment about whether and when to begin building an endowment. I put an essay up on meta recently in an attempt to rekindle this conversation with the community. We included launching an endowment in the FY 2015-16 annual plan. We also plan to have this conversation as a part of the larger strategic planning process because building an endowment means prioritizing some future needs over some current needs.
Before we can begin to support an endowment, there is strategic groundwork that should be completed to ensure that the effort is both thoughtful and successful. To help get the conversation moving, I seeded the discussion page with a few questions that we are hoping you will help us answer. Please add the questions I didn't think to ask, too. We'd appreciate hearing your thoughts on this and your help in thinking through some of the strategic questions.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment_Essay Best regards,
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