[Foundation-l] strategic planning process update

[Eugene Eric Kim]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Pavlo Shevelo <pavlo.shevelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Who will decide what the strategy will be, and what will be the
> decision-making process?"
>
> this page explains nothing about (or explains in no detail if somebody
> prefers) how main stakeholder - Foundation will make decision about
> said strategy. The huge, extremely intensive (and effective, if we
> will do our best) Earth-wide pipeline for proposal preparation - it's
> good. But what will be in the very end? How Foundation will decide
> what idea is good enough to stand behind it (and to put money in it)?

Sorry for taking so long to respond, Pavlo. I'm not sure I'm the right
person to respond to this. I'll do my best, you can tell me if you
think it's clear, and hopefully other folks from the Foundation will
jump in.

The simple answer is: At the end of this process, there will be a
community-developed plan with a set of recommendations. The Foundation
board will vote on that plan at its board meeting in November 2010.

Assuming we pull off what we're trying to pull off, I expect that to
be a rubber stamp. In other words, if this is a good process, if we
put lots of thought into it, if a large, diverse group of stakeholders
are engaged, I think the board will go with the plan. That is my
opinion, not an official statement of fact. :-)

I expect people from the Foundation to actively engage in the process
with everyone else. I hope that holds true for other stakeholders,
such as the Chapters, and I would very much love to see all of our
stakeholders both engage in the process and then go through some
official approval process. I'm optimistic that this will happen. I
know that several Chapters are already engaged in their own strategic
planning processes, and I expect those will align nicely with this
movement-wide process. I hope that individual projects get more
actively engaged as well, as I think this is a wonderful opportunity
to reflect together and to take advantage of common resources for this
effort.

=Eugene

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