We did discuss it in Wahsington and decided to leave it aside while we worked on the plan for 2013.

I am going to speak honestly here. I wondered if we would ever get a plan, given how many different ideas and views there were about what should be in it, and what structure it should take.

My strategy given the delays was just to get on with delivering the 2012 plan to the best of our ability.

However in creating the bid to the FDC for 2013 I realised we really did need to show planning ahead and I revisited the three and five year plan. The application form asks us to look to the future and this is sensible.

I think the current three and five year plan is good enough to work from, whilst keeping it under review, and our FDC bid has been largely informed by it by necessity.

There is a terrible tendency in planning to 'never quite get there' , waiting for perfection. We have been a bit prone to that.  This plan went through four re-writes over about the same number of months. It is common sense and achievable in my view.

Jon Davies.


On 28 September 2012 23:00, Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey@googlemail.com> wrote:
I appreciate that recent events have overtaken things to an extent but I wondered what the status is with http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_Five_Year_Plan? On the page ist says "This version will be discussed at a special board meeting to be held during Wikimania in Washington" - did that happen?

It seems in fairly good shape, although it could do with a section saying how progress towards achieving the plan will be reviewed. The best thing may be to adopt it as is until the next review.

We do five year plans at our work and they work in a rolling format - i.e. each year you do another five year plan based on the last and extending out another year. This works fairly well and I'd recommend it as an approach.

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