[Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

[Thomas Dalton]

I just sent this to internal-l, because I hadn't seen this thread.
This discussion should, of course, happen in public, so I'll repeat
myself here:

Thank you very much for this prompt announcement. I am glad to see the
WMF board is open to some fundraising by chapters, but I would
appreciate some more detail on what you intend to happen over the next
3 years.

It sounds like the intention is that having a small number of chapters
fundraise is an experiment and what happens after 2015 will depend on
the results of that experiment. Is that an accurate interpretation?
Will the parameters of that experiment be spelt out somewhere?

The Wikimedia movement has a tendency to run trials and experiments
without any clear planning and the result is invariably that nobody
knows what to do at the end because we haven't actually collected the
information we need and we aren't clear on what questions we were
actually trying to find answers to. Can you provide some assurance
that the same thing isn't going to happen here?

On 30 March 2012 22:42, Ting Chen <tchen at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Dear members of the community,
>
> After having discussed the final aspects of this today I would like to
> announce the following three resolutions
>
> 1) Board of Trustees Voting Transparency:
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Transparency
> 1) Fundraising 2012:
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_2012
> 2) Funds Dissemination Committee:
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee
>
> For those of you who are currently in Berlin, we will have a 2 hour window
> tomorrow to discuss this together, we invite you to send questions for this
> session to Harel Cain (<harel.cain at gmail.com <mailto:harel.cain at gmail.com>>)
> He will be moderating tomorrow's session which will be similar to the Q&A
> session we had in Paris.
>
> We are currently working on a Question and Answer document which we will
> publish as soon as possible.
>
> Although the decision has now been made, we have a large number of
> challenges ahead of us and I hope that we as a movement will come together
> to make the Funds Dissemination Committee a success by working with us to
> come up with answers tot the questions that we still have and helping to
> make it work!
>
> --
> Ting Chen
> Member of the Board of Trustees
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> E-Mail: tchen at wikimedia.org
>
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