On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Veronique Kessler vkessler@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
The 2010-11 Annual Plan and Questions and Answers have just been posted to the Foundation website (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports#2010-2011_fiscal_year). The plan was approved by the Board last week.
The 2010-11 plan differs from previous years in that this plan is rooted in the five-year (2010-2015) Wikimedia Strategy which has been developed collaboratively over the past year. In 2010-11, we have planned continued growth over previous years reflecting continued and increased investments to serve our mission and increase our impact.
The 2009-10 year is projected to exceed revenue targets and to be underspent in expenses primarily due to underspending in the first quarter of the 2009-10 fiscal year.
Veronique
Thank you Veronique for posting this! I appreciate your continued diligence in making material available to us.
I would like to encourage everyone to be sure and actually read this plan closely; "continued growth" turns out to mean nearly doubling the staff next year, and doubling the budget -- rather surprisingly dramatic growth. There is a lot of change that is planned for here, and many of these changes relate to areas that community members do work in.
Personally, I would love to see some serious community discussion of this plan both here and at Wikimania next week.
-- phoebe