Hey Deryck,
On Apr 29, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)wikimedia.hk> wrote:
But you say "we" … We refers to WMHK I assume, but did you do this after a
discussion with the Grants Programme, or did you decide this on your own?
I work for the non-profit sector, and there is not way that any
organisation I know could get away with something
like that I am afraid. If
you are given money for a reason, you cannot simply decide to take it as an
advance on a possible next grant without agreement of the party that
supplied you with the grant. I am sorry, but this is not Irony, this is
governance…
From my reply to THO (also on this thread): "We have replied multiple times
that we want the remaining funds from the 2010-11 grants to be considered
in conjunction with the FDC proposal. (ie. the FDC proposal is the
reallocation request.) This is because it is logistically impractical for
us to return any funds to WMF before the end of Wikimania."
Yes I read your reply, but you keep stating "we want", that is not that same as
"together with the grant giver we agreed"… I cannot overstate the importance of
the difference between the two…
(and again: this is not the only issue with the WMHK request that the FDC pointed out).
Additionally I see that the community consultation phase asked for the
annual report and you stated that it would be available on the WMHK website
after the meeting of the 16th of March… I wanted to go through it, but
could not find it on the home page (I would assume its under
documentation?) Can you point me to it?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Hong_Kong_2011-12_Annual_Rep…
(or scroll halfway down the proposal page)
Thanks!
Jan-Bart