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

[Michael Peel]

"We ask the Executive Director not to allow any additional chapters to payment process, until the Board revisits the framework for fundraising and payment processing in late 2015 in advance of the November 2016 fundraising campaign."

This is very disappointing. It's a real shame that chapters aside from WMDE, WMFR, WMUK and WMCH aren't being given any encouragement to develop their capabilities for handling donations. I have to say that I think this is a fundamental misstep for the Wikimedia movement, and one that we will come to regret in the future.

On voting transparency: this is a great step forward. However, I would encourage the WMF to take a further step, and to explain why trustees voted approve/abstain/against. This could potentially be done by (for examples) adding notes next to votes explaining reservations or key supporting factors, or by making resolutions more focused (e.g. the fundraising decision could have been split into four: principles, chapter payment processing, four chapters, and additional chapters, which would have provided more insight here).

Thanks,
Mike Peel
(Personal viewpoint)

On 30 Mar 2012, at 22:42, Ting Chen 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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