I just want to respond to this point in particular:
"Postponing the Italian fundraising campaign means for the first time in at
least 4 years, the fundraising team will not be meeting a target. The team
will pick up extra work in October to make up for work missed in September.
It's not possible to do two months of work in one month, so there will need
to be adjustments later throughout the year to make up for missing the
September target."
It was somewhat courageous for WMF Fundraising to change its schedule and
forecast missing a target as a result. Two quotes seem appropriate in the
context of this conversation, particularly regarding WMF's taking the
community's priorities into account and absorbing the risks to its plans
that come with changing to accommodate WLM:
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it
takes to sit down and listen." -- Winston Churchill.
"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in
the ocean." --Christopher Reeve
Thanks Megan and all.
Pine
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Mathias Damour <mathias.damour(a)laposte.net
wrote:
Le 31/08/2015 13:02, Megan Hernandez a écrit :
Postponing the Italian fundraising campaign means
for the first time in at
least 4 years, the fundraising team will not be meeting a target. The team
will pick up extra work in October to make up for work missed in
September.
It's not possible to do two months of work in one month, so there will
need
to be adjustments later throughout the year to make up for missing the
September target.
The WMF team is without any doubt very professional in "meeting its
target" and in smooth communication.
We should also understand that despite the huge growth of the WMF these
last few years, it may feel an inferiority complex and think it has a
backlog to catch up compared to some much richer neighbouring companies in
the San Francisco Bay ! I guess they roughly think: "Why should we have 15
time less employees than Twitter !" That's why raising up the fundraising
targets can be more important than to facilitate a WLM event in just one
not-so-big country ! :-P
Nevertheless it still give the impression of taking the word-wide donors,
the volunteers and the other entities (chapters) for pawns/chess pieces
that you may move or stop whenever you want or need...
Maybe the ones to blame are the neighbouring internet companies for
setting a bad example to the WMF... :-\
--
Mathias Damour
[[User:Astirmays]]
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