[Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

[Andrew Gray]

2009/11/29 Laura Hale <laura at fanhistory.com>:

> As some one who has proposed a new project for the WMF (which would really
> probably be an acquisition if it happened), some changes need to be made:

(...)

This sort of presupposes that WMF, on the whole, wants to acquire
projects. My understanding for several years has basically been that
we don't; we build very large-scope projects in house, and gently
encourage people who come to us with more specialised projects to
either find a way to work them into one of the umbrellas, or to find a
more appropriate home elsewhere.

So, if WMF is going to begin to acquire projects, it first needs to
decide that it wants to do that at all. And *that's* a big step; it'll
need discussion and debate, a rethinking of what we conceive of as WMF
projects, and how we decide on what is an appropriate use of funds;
it's not just something someone in the office can sign off on. Once we
have that - if we have that - then we can decide on a policy to handle
such cases.

That's the sticking-point here; deciding on the merits or demerits of
the FH proposal are somewhat secondary to deciding whether we should
be thinking about entertaining the proposal at all, and we can't just
finesse past that stage.

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk