Hi.
Someone pointed out to me that in 2006, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees approved a resolution to create a fundraising committee: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_committee.
A few months later, it passed a subsequent resolution specifying the fundraising committee's membership: http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_committee/Membership.
In 2010, the Board passed a resolution about fundraising principles: http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_fundraising_principles.
The history of the fundraising committee (and what happened to it) is what's confusing me. Did a subsequent resolution/motion abolish it? Was it simply disbanded (and is that possible with the force of a Board resolution behind it)? There are now fundraising staff, but I'm not quite sure how that happened or what happened to any type of committee/workforce.
Any pointers to pages about this or info about this would be appreciated. It would make it much easier to update pages such as http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_committees#Fundraising_committee with accurate information.
MZMcBride
On 4/17/2011 9:07 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
Hi.
Someone pointed out to me that in 2006, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees approved a resolution to create a fundraising committee: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_committee.
A few months later, it passed a subsequent resolution specifying the fundraising committee's membership: http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_committee/Membership.
In 2010, the Board passed a resolution about fundraising principles: http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_fundraising_principles.
The history of the fundraising committee (and what happened to it) is what's confusing me. Did a subsequent resolution/motion abolish it? Was it simply disbanded (and is that possible with the force of a Board resolution behind it)? There are now fundraising staff, but I'm not quite sure how that happened or what happened to any type of committee/workforce.
The board passed a resolution redefining the committee system in 2009: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_Committees. That resolution defined all of the committees in operation at that time, and disbanded those that were no longer needed or inactive. The fundraising committee isn't mentioned specifically, but I'm sure it was no longer operational by that point.
While it may not have captured every committee that had been contemplated at some point previously, this resolution was intended as an "omnibus" resolution that would apply to all of the existing committees and establish a new base from which to develop the committee system. Additional committees have been formed since then, but I would consider all earlier committees dissolved unless their continued function was acknowledged in that resolution.
--Michael Snow
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The board passed a resolution redefining the committee system in 2009: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_Committees. That resolution defined all of the committees in operation at that time, and disbanded those that were no longer needed or inactive. The fundraising committee isn't mentioned specifically, but I'm sure it was no longer operational by that point.
--Michael Snow
Indeed, the fundraising committee is mentioned in the "staff committees"
section:
"Past committees include the Technical Committee and Fundraising Committee, which are not currently active."
This shows that the fundraising was not only disbanded in practice, it was disbanded officially too.
-Liam
On 4/17/2011 9:26 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
The board passed a resolution redefining the committee system in 2009: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_Committees. That resolution defined all of the committees in operation at that time, and disbanded those that were no longer needed or inactive. The fundraising committee isn't mentioned specifically, but I'm sure it was no longer operational by that point.
--Michael Snow
Indeed, the fundraising committee is mentioned in the "staff committees" section:
"Past committees include the Technical Committee and Fundraising Committee, which are not currently active."
This shows that the fundraising was not only disbanded in practice, it was disbanded officially too.
Thanks, I was looking at the list of other disbanded committees at the bottom and trying to figure out if we had just overlooked it, so I'm glad to know we did say it explicitly at the time.
--Michael Snow
Michael Snow wrote:
On 4/17/2011 9:07 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
The history of the fundraising committee (and what happened to it) is what's confusing me. Did a subsequent resolution/motion abolish it? Was it simply disbanded (and is that possible with the force of a Board resolution behind it)? There are now fundraising staff, but I'm not quite sure how that happened or what happened to any type of committee/workforce.
The board passed a resolution redefining the committee system in 2009: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_Committees. That resolution defined all of the committees in operation at that time, and disbanded those that were no longer needed or inactive. The fundraising committee isn't mentioned specifically, but I'm sure it was no longer operational by that point.
While it may not have captured every committee that had been contemplated at some point previously, this resolution was intended as an "omnibus" resolution that would apply to all of the existing committees and establish a new base from which to develop the committee system. Additional committees have been formed since then, but I would consider all earlier committees dissolved unless their continued function was acknowledged in that resolution.
Ah, thanks for the link. I clarified the section at Meta-Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=2507024&oldid=2463973.
There are only two staff committees listed currently at Meta-Wiki. Is fundraising not considered a committee at this point? Are there any other staff committees missing from that page? (I'm not asking you directly, Michael, I'm just curious, though you might know the answers.)
MZMcBride
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