A clarification: Josephine is a grantee, not a volunteer.
I've seen situations go both ways, with WMF making decisions that it should
leave to the community (such as with MediaViewer) as well as declining to
pay for projects that would be worth funding (such as the previous decision
to drop support for this app.) I am hopeful that under Katherine's
leadership, WMF will be more supportive of community decisions and
priorities.
Pine
On Jun 21, 2016 05:43, "Dmitry Brant" <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Paul,
To be clear, the Commons app is still very much in the hands of volunteers.
The WMF has simply allowed the app to use the Commons logo, which will make
the app more recognizable and discoverable by users. In fact, this app
*used* to be an official WMF project before we discontinued it nearly two
years ago, and was subsequently picked up by these excellent volunteers.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Paul Laan <paulvlaan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I think this is good news, but it also makes me wonder the following:
We saw it happen a couple of times the last months, now the app is in
official WMF hands how long will it take before they kick the volunteers
out, and let the WMF devs work on it?
I would rather have seen this volunteer (and other) volunteer projects in
the hands of volunteers. Every year the WMF asks for more money, and take
away more and more things the volunteers used to run for free.
I would rather see things moved to volunteers instead of the other way
arround.
Paul Vlaan
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