[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Mid-Year Presentation to the Board of Trustees

[Chris Keating]

>
> 23, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > on February 3, the Wikimedia Foundation senior staff gave a
> > presentation to the Board of Trustees as part of its Board meeting in
> > San Francisco, recapping the fiscal year so far (our year begins July
> > 1) and looking ahead. The slide deck is now available here:
> >
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Mid-Year_Review_February_2012.pdf
> >
>

Thanks for this - very interesting :-)

For me, the most reassuring part is at the end. (It feels a bit odd
highlighting this, given the amount of cool stuff in the report, but I
suppose it's cool stuff I already knew about). I am very glad to hear that
these issues are on peoples' minds and I think identifying them is a really
helpful step.

Everybody at all levels of the WMF needs to stop spending
social & political capital accidentally, or on stuff that doesn't
matter;
● We need to stop surprising the community: we need to
acknowledge that time works differently for volunteers, and
they need lots of advance notice for everything. Overtransparency has never
harmed us, but lack of transparency
has;
● Internally in the organization we need to shift from the
assumption that our scarcest resource is money, to the
acknowledgement that it's time. We need to get better at
conserving energy, focusing and saying no;