Probably a smoother transition would be much more appropiate. A part-time or temporary employee that can take care of the belated reports and paperwork that you, as volunteers, can't do and probably establish some basis for a future growth. WM-AR, WM-RS and WM-IL have professionalized in the latest years (correct me if there is any other chapter too), which are medium-sized chapters, probably similar to HK.You should take a look at their/our experience and that can be helpful to imagine what you can do.
*Osmar Valdebenito G.* Director Ejecutivo A. C. Wikimedia Argentina
2013/4/30 Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan jerry.tschan.yu@gmail.com
I think Jan-Bart did point out an interesting point As I heard in Milan Long time staffing, must go trough FDC And we exactly know our weakness on transparency and management (I already tried hard to push my rest of team when I was on the chapter board But what do you expect if they have day time or/& studies?)
And going trough these year of struggle for survival We are already very clear to improve the situation we need permanent staff to stabilize the structure, to free up volunteer to work out something more "meaningful".
As we aware of problem, we are run out of way to improve, it is bottleneck we need to tackle. So the FDC decision suggests chapter like us should never professionalize? Or never hire staff? Or never apply grant? As without staffing we dun think we can really have a change, as everyone had to spent at least 60 hours a week for work and studies.
But the immediate effect of this (I-would-call-in-a-community-aspect) irresponsible decision is not just kill off the chance of development, the worse is liquidating the faith of volunteers.
Also we understand the local environment can be how harsh to charity run by young people like us WMF is rather easy way to get funding, so I can understand why they have such strong feeling It is frankly a huge slam on the local communities faith on that WMF can be helpful all the time.
we have plans and right connections, just need people to deal with the stuff in working hours and of course improve the area they accuse us That's it
(also one note about the accusation of mismanagement previous fund
we did have apply grant via projects, we finished the report, and we told them we have money left, nobody had tell us what to do clearly AND WMF STAFF CONTACTS JUST CHANGE ALL THE TIME
Actually I do find this new grant system really disgusting I know there are always some good & helpful staff and people around Frankly I dun think the FdC related person are & will
And now they force me to think of other harder local alternative (which again a hell lot volunteer time) Sorry frankly I dun have confidence on appeal or ombudsman after go through all these frankly
On the other hands we need more (fxxxing) paperworks for appeal or ombudsman, which the team is super tired with, I just ponder why the things go so inhumane.
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On 29 Apr, 2013, at 2:37, "Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu)" < jerry.tschan.yu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all
I am ACTUALLY PANIC when reading this.
Normally I would say please don't go, but realizing myself I am not on the Local Chapter board already and even myself start to feel don't know what to do next
And I am sorry to say, the decision had totally stir up the emotion of the whole Wikimania Local Team I frankly don't know whether if it will lead to a melt down of our volunteer power after frustrations of all these years as Deryck said, as I was on the Board and knew most of the stories.
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