hi Pavel,
reengineering organizational processes is a good approach, and it allows to
avoid pitfalls of being tied by current practices. However, I think that
for a discussion about movement's resources, it would be quite worthwhile
to use the FDC members experience (who, at the time, will be in the middle
of Round 2), as well as NON-chapter affiliated activists (to get a wider
perspective, simply - if we are to rethink from the scratch, it may be
worthwhile to include people who are not in chapters, too - after all,
chapters probably should not be perceived as the only constant in this
exercise, although I personally believe they are crucial to the whole
picture and definitely have to be to backbone of the process).
I'm writing this not to circumvent your idea, as I think that the
initiative is good. It is also possibly useful that not only WMF takes part
in facilitating the discussion. I'm basically pointing out why this very
Wikimedia Chapters Conference is not the best possible venue for this
particular brainstorming activity.
best,
dj "pundit"
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Pavel Richter
<pavel.richter(a)wikimedia.de>wrote;wrote:
Dear Anasuya,
thank you for your mail and the very good points you are raising in it. I
would like to address one point in particular, my idea of reworking the FDC
process at the Wikimedia Conference in April.
My intention is not to hijack the timetable of the FDC, or to circumvent
established channels. I simply believe that, if you face a rather
complicated process such as the FDC, it can be very helpful to rethink the
whole idea from scratch. So instead of asking: "How can we improve the
current process", we would start from: "What goals do we want to reach,
which strengths of our movement can we use for this, and which values and
principles should guide us."
At the end, we would not have a "new or improved FDC process", but a way
forward to reach our goals. This way may or may not look like the current
FDC, but in any case it can be used as an inspiration when it comes to
review (and maybe change) the FDC process.
So please do not see our suggestion to discuss this at the Wikimedia
Conference as a counter-proposal to the original timeframe. As ED and as a
member of the FDC AG, I fully support the process that you outlined in your
mail, and I am very confident that it will lead to fruitfull discussions
and ultimatly to a good recommendation.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Pavel Richter
Vorstand
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tel.: +49 - 30 - 219 158 260
Twitter: @pavel
2014/1/16 Anasuya Sengupta <asengupta(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi Pavel,
Thanks very much for the thoughtful feedback from WMDE on the FDC. We
certainly want to be (and hope we are) wiki in nature: a work in
progress,
with continued room for improvement. So I think
the FDC, the FDC Advisory
Group (of which you are a member, of course), the Board and the staff
will
all be considering these comments as we move
forward.
I want to be equally thoughtful of the fact that we already have a number
of processes in place that are part of the FDC Framework - and that the
FDC
and staff have expanded upon in the past year and
a half - and that are
designed to incorporate feedback of this kind. I'm also conscious that
the
FDC will be in the middle of reviewing Round 2
applications in April, and
it would be difficult on them - and the applicants - if we were to do an
intensive process of consultation with all 9 members and 2 Board
representatives at the time. Most significantly, we have a meeting with
the
FDC Advisory Group (FDC AG) planned, as you know,
for end May, in which
we
are scheduling a time to overlap with the FDC
members, so that feedback
in
both directions can then be incorporated into the
FDC Advisory Group's
recommendations to the WMF ED and Board as per the FDC Framework.[1]
As a reminder, the FDC AG was meant to have had a meeting in March this
year, to recommend the continuance of the FDC or not. On consultation
with
the AG late last year, we decided to move this
meeting to May, so that it
would be at the end of two years and four rounds of the FDC, and could
have
useful input from both FDC members and all
participants. According to the
Framework, this counsel from the AG will then feed into the WMF ED's
recommendation to the Board, on the FDC's continued existence and its
form
(due, according to the Framework, roughly in
mid-August this year).
The current members of the AG are Richard Ames/Ariconte, Ting Chen
(former
member of WMF Board), Jan-Bart de Vreede (WMF
Board), Thomas d'Souza
Buckup/TSB, Peter Ekman/Smallbones, Sue Gardner (WMF ED), Crystal Hayling
(Philanthropy Advisor), Christophe Henner (WMFR), Kathy Reich (Packard
Foundation), Pavel Richter (WMDE), Osmar Valdebenito (WMAR) and Stu West
(WMF Board).[2] Since I replaced Barry Newstead, I will host and
facilitate
this meeting as he did the original FDC Advisory
Group, with support
from a
small sub-committee of the AG.
I had originally planned to ask this sub-committee of the FDC AG if they
would be willing to lead an on-wiki conversation post the WM Conference
that would feed into the meeting in May, but this conversation pre-empts
that, somewhat, so here would be my suggestion for a practical and
constructive way to move forward:
* We have a full and frank conversation at the Wikimedia Conference - as
we
did last year - with everyone interested, on the
FDC process and
constructive suggestions for improvements. We do this with two FDC
members
and staff present, and take detailed notes.
* This feedback will then be shared with the FDC Advisory Group when it
meets in May. We are planning to have the FDC members overlap with the
FDC
AG for half a day so that there is collective
sharing, after which the AG
will consider all the different inputs that we have collected so far:
feedback from the many F2F meetings, including site visits; the
anonymised
surveys we have conducted after every round of
the FDC recommendations;
the
ongoing progress reports and program evaluations;
and the many
on-wiki/email/phone/skype/IRC conversations we have had with each
organisation throughout the FDC process.
All of these suggestions could then usefully feed into the FDC Advisory
Group's recommendation to the WMF ED and Board, and in time for shaping
the
next year of the FDC process. I'm hoping that
the AG will be able to
share
its recommendations publicly, soon after its
meeting, which can then
continue this conversation much more constructively on-wiki.
It's worth all of us remembering that the FDC process - supporting the
annual plans of Wikimedia organisations - is ultimately meant to have
impact on our online Wikimedia projects. We are all shared stewards of
movement resources, and having the contributions and thinking of
different
community members is therefore critical. I would
rather not turn to
Wikimania as the only place to have this conversation however, instead
seeing it as the space at which we can perhaps present the
recommendations
of the Advisory Group, and include a broader
conversation about the
movement's goals and how all Wikimedia organisations can support
achieving
those goals better.
I'd be glad to hear your thoughts on this, both as WMDE ED and as a
member
of the FDC Advisory Group.
Warmly,
Anasuya
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Framework_for…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_…
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Pavel Richter
<pavel.richter(a)wikimedia.de>wrote;wrote:
Hello everybody,
I have just posted an extensive feedback from WMDE on the FDC process
here
on meta:
The statement was drafted by WMDE's Supervisory Board and myself.
We are very much looking forward to a discussion and I would like to
encourage everybody to share their thoughts. At the same it would be
great
> if we could keep the discussion on meta so that we have everything in
one
place.
All the Best,
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Pavel Richter
Vorstand
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tel.: +49 - 30 - 219 158 260
Twitter: @pavel
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