Is there any (un)official policy/strong advice/anything against direct hiring from WMF/FDC/whatever grants?
Balazs
2013/4/30 Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl
hi Jeromy-Yu,
thank you for sharing this personal note.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan < jerry.tschan.yu@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
I hope it is clear that the FDC decision DOES NOT suggest that you should never professionalize at all, or hire staff, etc. This decision is related only to your submitted project (its content, the evaluated impact, as well as volume - you applied for over 200,000 USD to start with; as well as the estimated capacity to deal with the project's scale, responsibilities, etc.).
I also encourage you to go through the comments from the deliberation:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2012-2013_roun...
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.
I'm really very sorry to hear that and I assure you that it has never been our intention to undermine the spirit of volunteers. On the contrary, the volunteer work is something you shine in, and Wikimania organization is something everybody on the FDC has been really impressed with. However, I also hope you realize that the project evaluation has to be done basing on its own merits, and it did not include Wikimania at all (funded separately).
best,
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