Hi,
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 12:30, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:46 AM, svetlana svetlana@fastmail.com.au wrote:
John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
i.e. specifically asking previously highly productive volunteers who have stopped contributing whether they feel the increase in funds has not resulted in their work being adequately supported?
Thanks for your great wording, John.
I belong to this category (somewhat). I stopped contributing because I felt that my work is not adequately supported. I felt the need to develop some software. I have rather limited free time however, and I've been in the "not highly productive on-wiki" phase for over 3 years now.
Incidentally, one of the entities that doesn't adequately support my work is my local chapter. It had been extremely hostile toward Wikimedia movement and after learning how it works I had no motivation to continue working with Wikimedia projects. How poorly the Wikimedia Foundation itself works wasn't the biggest obstacle (I found it mildly approachable and was (and am!) a tiny bit happy with it).
Have you looked into the funding situation of your local chapter? Does it have large cash reserves and large predicable revenue flows?
-- John Vandenberg
Thanks for the suggestion, but there is not a problem with how it is funded. It organizes events which miss the point.
I would be happy to be more specific, but I will do so at a later point, not here and not now; what I was saying was only that *if* we were to do such survey, we would need to *also* ask people how happy they are with their Chapters activities and adequate support from them. The funding banner is for them all, not just WMF, after all.
-- svetlana