[Wikimedia-l] compromise?

[Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com]

The April fundraiser is on translated messages IIRC. Your suggestion is not at all practical for the fundraising team to implement. 

Also it is terrible idea, which ignores the high costs of planning to hold deliberations in a few months which is designed to nullify the results of recently concluded deliberations. People have work to do in January, February, and March. No sane person can be expected to be put in a holding pattern for three months before an organizations STARTS to decide what internal projects will be supported. If you think there is a "talent retention" problem now, well if you had your way the current numbers would be blown out of the water by the coming stampede of departures.

BirgitteSB


On Dec 28, 2012, at 3:45 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about for the April fundraiser, instead of setting a dollar value
> goal, we agree to use multivariate analysis instead of A/B testing to
> optimize the messaging from volunteer submissions in advance, then run
> the whole thing for a fixed time frame, say three weeks, and then use
> the actual amount raised to decide whether salaries should be
> competitive with area tech firms, whether Fellowships should be
> jettisoned, how much personell to put into the Education Program and
> engineering, and how much of a reserve to invest, preferably with low
> risk instruments which pay above the rate of inflation?
> 
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