The inaugural Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) is pleased to announce recommendations [1] on Round 1 of funds allocations for the year 2012-13. The WMF Board of Trustees will make a decision on these recommendations by December 15, 2012.
The FDC received proposals from 12 movement entities for Round 1 for a total requested amount of 10.4 million USD. These proposals were from 11 Wikimedia chapters and the Wikimedia Foundation. Three proposals were received after the deadline of 1 October had passed, but the FDC decided that since it was the first time for the process, the late proposals would be accepted and discussed. Since the proposal deadline, the FDC and FDC support staff have spent many hours reviewing and assessing these proposals to determine a set of allocations that would best support movement goals. This assessment included a 4-day in-person deliberation session in San Francisco over the period October 28-31, where the FDC members discussed the proposals in depth and determined allocation amounts for each applying entity.
The FDC recognizes that this is not a perfect process, and that the process and the outcome will improve over time as we learn more about what works in the movement and what drives impact. We invite the community to provide overall feedback on these recommendations on the talk page for these recommendations [2] and to provide feedback about the FDC process on-wiki to the Ombudsperson [3], who will collect this feedback and use it in our continuous improvement process. For formal complaints about the recommendations, there is a separate process, outlined below.
If any entity has a complaint about the FDC’s recommendation, it should be submitted by 23:59 UTC on 22 November 2012 in accordance with the complaint process outlined in the Framework for the Creation and Initial Operation of the FDC [4]:
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2012-2013_round1