What I can say about this new-old not surprising decision? When WMDE posted their feedback about the FDC, the responses from the board/fdc was "wait, we want to finish 2 years cycle and then talk about the it". Of course it didn't stopped the WMF, before having such a discussion, to decide and limit already from now the future of this process. the process itself without a budget or ability to grove, makes the FDC kind of powerless, having to face him over the next 2 year with a really hard decisions about really limiting the allocation for the chapters, without of course, having enough time, knowledge or resources for them to prepare for self fundraising.
I have a lot what to say about it, but from a past experience from the "board's letters" i believe it will end with 1000 emails on this list, but nothing will be change, so I'll save my time. I'll just again doubt why we reached for such a decision, without open call for comment before.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:33 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I want to draw your attention to two Wikimedia Board of Trustees decisions that were recently published, regarding funds allocated to the FDC/Annual plan grant process and Board approval of chapter/thematic organization status. In a nutshell, the Board decided to allocate approximately the same amount of funding to the FDC for the next two years. The Board also decided that new organizations should first form as a user group and have two years of programmatic experience before being approved as a legally incorporated entity (either a chapter or thematic organization).
The decisions are published in the meeting minutes here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2013-11-24#Movement_roles
There is also a FAQ on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_FAQ
You will notice these decisions are published in the minutes for the November meeting. We originally took these decisions at that meeting; however as the FAQ explains it took us some time to talk to community groups, clarify our wording and write the FAQ.
Hopefully the FAQ will answer many of your questions about these decisions; however, if there are other questions please do ask them, here or on the meta talk page. Thank you!
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