[Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009-

[effe iets anders]

Why should all Wikimedians have the same culture and ideas and way of
thinking as you? Why should Wikimedians who have a culture be excluded from
setting up a chapter?

Besides that I think you're paraphrasing way too much. The grant request
only suggested that this kind of costs are just costs that have to be made
to work efficiently. The chapter asked the Foundation to pay for it the
first year, so that they could focus on useful stuff. I hope they will be
able to generate these and other funds themselves from next year onwards.

Lodewijk

2009/9/11 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>

> 2009/9/11 Jennifer Riggs <jriggs at wikimedia.org>:
> > However the word and concept of "frugality" differs significantly across
> > cultures. In my experience with many non-Western cultures, asking people
> > to bring lunch from home or spend their own money for it would not only
> > exclude participation, it would insult people. If the purpose is to
> > encourage participation and commitment to a newly forming organization,
> > it seems it would be very important not to insult people.
>
> If we were talking about meetings with people from outside the
> Wikimedia movement, I would agree with you, but I really can't see how
> it can be insulting not to provide food at a meeting of Wikimedians
> when the people attending the meeting and the people organising the
> meeting are exactly the same people. If people are only willing to set
> up a chapter if the WMF buys them lunch once a month, I don't want
> those people setting up a chapter.
>
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