[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation restructure (Global Dev & Engineering)

[Thomas Dalton]

On 7 December 2012 00:04, Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> First, we’re going to revamp Global Development. Starting now, that
> department will be called Grantmaking and Programs. It will be co-led
> by Anasuya (grantmaking) and Frank (programs). Anasuya and Frank will
> have separate direct reports and budgets, but we’re going to keep it
> as a single department because neither sub-department is very large
> and because the two are deeply interlinked: we wouldn’t have one
> without the other. Anasuya, currently Director of Global Learning and
> Grantmaking, will become Senior Director of Grantmaking, and Frank,
> currently Global Education Program Director, will become Senior
> Director of Programs.

What is the long-term plan for Frank and his sub-department? It seems
to encompass all the bits you are planning to stop doing as part of
the narrowing of focus, so is the intention that it will gradually
shrink to nothing?