Hi Gerard,
I found this finance report interesting, especially in light of discussions at WMCON. I'll have more to say later but I'm pretty swamped in projects at the moment. I may try to add some thoughts about this finance report into my piece about WMCON that I'm writing for the Signpost.
Pine On Jun 11, 2015 12:49 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, it strikes me that when one of the principal activities of chapters is omitted, the relative value of this research is reduced.
When you consider that it is EXACTLY the time I had to spend re reporting that I will think hard to apply again that considering it out of scope is also really bad business.
For me you have a report that I find hard to understand what it is I take away from it. What is left as a lesson learned that I care about? Thanks, GerardM
On 10 June 2015 at 00:10, Lene Gillis lgillis@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thank you for all your supportive feedback, we really appreciate it.
@ Tomasz - This is definitely something we will discuss further. We
replied
to your question on meta and welcome further comments related to this on meta.
@ Pine, Claudia - For 2013, the volunteer and staff time spent on
applying
for and reporting about WMF grants was not within the scope of our financial report. The focus was mainly on aligning the financial data
that
were in the financial statements of the chapters. We will consider if including the estimate of volunteer and staff time spent on applying for and reporting about WMF grants would fall within the scope of the report
if
this is to be repeated.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com
wrote:
Great job and very interesting.
I had this tought during sending you data for Wikimedia Polska, so I
want
to share it here as well. In the report there is no "projects" entry
for
costs but only "events" and "organizational development". Chapters are doing not only events but also projects leading to improvement of free content and data - such as colaboration with GLAMs, software
developement,
developement of wikidata, microgrant systems etc, which are hard to be called "events" and they are also not "organizational developement". I would suggest to add to future reports positions "content and software improvement projects" or something similar. I think especially for
thematic
organizations it is the core of their activity.
2015-06-08 19:00 GMT+02:00 Michael Guss mguss@wikimedia.org:
Hello folks,
After 8 months, over 400 line items and an infinite amount of
emails, I
am
very pleased to let everyone know that we the finance fellows have completed our movement-wide financial report. It is now available for everyone to read on meta and download.
Here is the link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movement-wide_Financial_Report
I have to offer my sincerest gratitude to everyone involved with the release of this report. Thank you to all the participating chapters
who
helped make this report possible. We cannot express our appreciation
enough
for your helpful responses and guidance to develop this final
product.
Hopefully, this report proves insightful for you and help us begin to
think
about more consistent financial reporting.
Thank you Community Engagement, especially Jaime Anstee, Edward
Galvez,
Winifred Olliff and Katy Love for your guidance throughout this
process.
But last and not least, thank you to all volunteers who participate
in
the
Wikimedia projects. Despite the fiscal emphasis of this report, it is
your
work that is most important and completely invaluable to the
movement.
Hopefully, you too will find this report useful.
Best,
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Walter Alejandro Gomez Segura < wagsegura@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Pine,
Yes, we would like to discuss it. The main goal of this project is
to
prompt questions, so further along we will carry out a discussion
about
this report and try to get as much feedback as we can from the
community.
Best,
Walter Gomez Segura *Finance Fellow* *149 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA., 94105* www.wikimediafoundation.org wagsegura@wikimedia.org
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Lene,
OK, thanks for the update. As you can tell, I am very interested
in
your
work.
I am sensitized to anything having to do with Meta-type
documentation
and
deadlines at the moment, seeing as I am juggling so many of them
with
intricate dependencies (including weekend projects), but I
suppose
that I
will just need to wait until April for this particular report.
I am very glad that this report is being done. Perhaps we will
have a
chance to discuss it during an office hour in April?
Thanks,
Pine
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Lene Gillis <
lgillis@wikimedia.org
wrote:
> Hi Pine, > > Thank you for your inquiry and for following up the status of
this
project. > > We’ve updated the information on our meta page[1], so that it
is
more
clear > to everyone. We would like to clarify that the Draft Report is
a
> finalization of the raw dataset and is not intended to be
published.
We
are > currently focusing on representing the data, so that everyone
can
easily
> understand the outcomes of our project. This will be revised
internally
and > the outcome of that will be the Final Report, which will be
published
in
> April. > > All the best, > > Lene > > [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement-wide_Financial_Report
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