[Foundation-l] Money, politics and corruption

[Casey Brown]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Mike.lifeguard
<mike.lifeguard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, oliver keyes wrote:
>> Sue is the Executive Director of the fastest growing non-profit
>> foundation in the United States, a foundation which has just

The characterization of the Wikimedia Foundation as the "fastest
growing non-profit" was from something done by Charity Navigator,
IIRC, and was mentioned in Sue's report at Wikimania.

>> announced a doubling of its staff, trial direct expansion to two more
>> nations and the gradual relocation of server resources. You think she
>> has the time for a monthly report?

The doubling of staff and other announcements can be found in the
Annual Plan. <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2010-2011_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers>
 I don't think the "general relocation" is accurate -- aren't we just
planning to setup more datacenters?

I'm pretty sure the "direct expansion" bit is also mentioned in the
Annual Plan as "boots-on-the-ground"/"BOTG" initiatives in India and
Brazil.

> Is there a press release for any of this? Alternatively, do we have a
> timeline for when her talk will be available for viewing?

It was streamed while the conference was going on, but if you missed
that, the presentations should be imported to Commons by either Rob or
Roan within the next few weeks.  (It's a ton of content.  Last I
heard, they were mailing Rob a DVD with all the content and he'd be
importing it when he got it.)

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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023