Perhaps in July we can have an office hour to discuss improvements to annual planning for all orgs including WMF?
Annual plans for any organization are a pain to develop and involve some guesswork about what will happen during the year. However, given the natures of annual fundraising and grant cycles, orgs need to know how much money we have to work with on an annual basis and to have some accountability for how it will be spent.
The immediate problem is the short time period for the community to review WMF's plan, and the limits of the documentation that have been provided so far. I suggest that WMF should address these problems first, and after this year's full plan with supporting documentation is reviewed by the community, we can have a discussion about annual planning more generally. I suggest that the WMF Board vote on the plan be postponed until the end of June in order to allow the community more time to review the plan and allow WMF more time to produce supporting documentation.
Thanks,
Pine