[Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

[Béria Lima]

>
> *Where did the money come from? I think it unambiguously concerns people
> who are part of the Wikimedia community (broadly defined), seeing as they
> were the ones to donate the money.
> *


1. People who donate money are mostly NOT on fundation-l and 2.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports (if you want to read)

*The chapters earned the money by doing what, exactly?
> *


Same thing Fundation do.


> *Do you know if there's a chart listing how much money each chapter
> received (or earned) from the past fundraiser? Is there a list of the
> chapters that were involved, at least?
> *


Yes and is public.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av5TeXEyGuvpdGRyNDJHS19RZmRqbWlqeHp5ak5uWnc&authkey=CKb59_wD&hl=pt_PT#gid=0


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On 5 August 2011 22:01, MZMcBride <z em mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> Béria Lima wrote:
> > The discussion in Internal-l is case-to-case and don't concern people who
> > are not involved in the chapter in discussion or WMF.
>
> Where did the money come from? I think it unambiguously concerns people who
> are part of the Wikimedia community (broadly defined), seeing as they were
> the ones to donate the money.
>
> > And - again - WMF don't "give money to chapters" in fundraising. The
> chapter
> > earn it alone. And the only thing to be in the way is the fundraising
> > agreement. Who - again - says that 50% goes to WMF and 50% stay with the
> > chapter. If that 50% is more than what the chapter need, is not WMF job
> to
> > ask the money back, because - again - the money don't belong to WMF.
>
> The chapters earned the money by doing what, exactly?
>
> > I sugguest you to go tough chapters report and ask what they are doing
> with
> > the money they receive in Fundraising. They need to be transparent about
> > what they are doing, but WMF does not have a "policy" status over that.
>
> Do you know if there's a chart listing how much money each chapter received
> (or earned) from the past fundraiser? Is there a list of the chapters that
> were involved, at least?
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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