Hey
So while I really regret your decision and hope that you will reconsider I would like to
ask you something.
Or, ironically, putting together a reallocation grant. Here's another
hen-and-egg problem for you all. We saw little value in settling the
remaining funds from the 2010-11 grants because the FDC results will change
everything anyway. Ironically the WMF and FDC became convinced that this is
a valid reason to retrospectively disqualify us.
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…
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?
And again: the FDC stated more reasons to turn down the request,not just the fact that
WMHK was not in compliance, they obviously spent a significant amount of time discussing
this...
Jan-Bart
Cheers,
Craig Franklin
On 29 April 2013 17:25, Thehelpfulone <thehelpfulonewiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 Apr 2013, at 07:52, Tilman Bayer
<tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm not familiar with the case, but reading
that page, it seems that
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:WM_HK/Education_Toolkits_For_Li…
might
also have played a role for the FDC's recommendation?
Indeed, yet it looks like there has been no (public) follow up by the
paid
WMF grants staff for over a month. In addition,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikim…
to still be an eligible entity.
Winifred/Asaf, please can you clarify whether WMHK is still an eligible
entity and what follow up was done after that message a month ago?
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Thehelpfulone
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone
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