[Wikimedia-l] FDC R1 funding recommendations are posted

[Chris Keating]

Many thanks for the considerable hard work that has gone into this process
from the FDC and the staff assisting them.

Regards,

Chris


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj at alk.edu.pl>wrote:

> Hello friends,
>
> The Funds Dissemination Committee meets twice annually to help make
> decisions about how to effectively allocate movement funds to achieve the
> Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. [1]
>
> On behalf of the committee, I am pleased to announce that Round 1 2013-2014
> recommendations to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees have now been
> posted on Meta. [2] The WMF Board will make their decision on these
> recommendations by 1 January 2014.
>
> For the first round of this fiscal year, the committee received 11
> proposals.  [3] These eleven proposals came from ten chapters and one
> thematic organization, totaling requests of $5.9 million USD.  Prior to our
> face-to-face deliberations in San Francisco from 17-21 November, the FDC
> reviewed the proposals in careful detail, aided by staff assessments and
> analysis on programs, finances, grant compliance and history, as well as
> community comments on the proposals. Staff presented an overview of these
> findings to the FDC during the deliberations. The FDC and FDC staff also
> asked clarifying questions to the entities on the proposal form discussion
> pages during the four-week community review period (and prior to the
> publishing of staff assessments), and observed the discussions about the
> proposals.
>
> The committee thanks all entities that submitted proposals, as it required
> significant effort to both create the proposal and to respond to the
> questions and feedback from the community, FDC, and FDC staff.  We
> sincerely appreciate them all for this work.
>
> For formal complaints or appeals about the recommendations, there is a
> separate process that entities should follow. Note that at the request of
> many stakeholders, we are clarifying the complaints and appeals terminology
> so that complaints are made about the process to the ombudsperson and
> appeals on the recommendations are made to the WMF Board representatives.
> These are further explained below:
>
> Any entity that would like to submit an appeal on the FDC’s Round 1
> recommendation should submit it to the Board representatives to the FDC by
> 23:59 UTC on 8 December 2013 in accordance with the appeal process outlined
> in the FDC Framework. The process is as follows:
>
> Appeals to the WMF Board on the recommendations of the FDC (formerly called
> complaints, terminology changed to avoid further confusion):
>
> * A formal appeal to challenge the FDC’s recommendation should be in the
> form of a 500-or-fewer word summary directed to the two non-voting WMF
> Board representatives to the FDC (Patricio Lorente and Bishakha Datta).
>
> * The appeal should be submitted on-wiki through the FDC portal page
> designated for this purpose. [4]
>
> * Formal appeals can be submitted only by the Board Chair of a
> funding-seeking entity.
>
> * Formal appeals must be filed within seven days of the deadline for
> submission of the FDC slate of recommendations to the WMF Board, even if
> the recommendations are published before the deadline for the
> recommendations i.e. end-of-day 1 December 2013. The deadline for appeals
> is the end-of-day UTC on 8 December.
>
> * These board representatives will present the appeal to the WMF Board at
> the same time as the Board considers the FDC recommendation. However, all
> responses to an appeal will be made seven days after the deadline for the
> appeal, i.e. by end-of-day UTC 15 December 2013.
>
> * Any planned or approved disbursements to the organization filing an
> appeal will be put on hold until the appeal is resolved.
>
> * If the WMF Board's consideration of the appeal results in an amendment of
> the FDC's recommendations (which is expected only in extraordinary
> circumstances), the WMF Board may choose to release extra funds from the
> WMF reserves to provide additional funds not allocated by the FDC's initial
> recommendation.
>
> * The Ombudsperson, as well as members of the WMF Board other than the
> Board representatives, may participate in the investigation if approved by
> the Chair of the WMF Board.
>
> Complaints to the ombudsperson about the FDC process (formerly called
> appeals):
>
> * A complaint about the FDC process can be filed by anyone with the
> Ombudsperson
> and can be made any time during a particular round of the FDC process (e.g.
> in this instance, from start July 2013 to end December 2013).
>
> * The complaint should be submitted on wiki, through the FDC portal page
> designated for this purpose [5]
>
> * The ombudsperson will receive and publicly document the complaint, and
> investigate the complaint, as needed.
>
> On behalf of the FDC,
>
> "pundit" Dariusz Jemielniak (FDC Chair)
>
> [1]
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Framework_for_the_Creation_and_Initial_Operation_of_the_FDC
>
> [2]
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2013-2014_round1
>
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals
>
> [4]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Appeals_to_the_Board_on_the_recommendations_of_the_FDC
>
> [5]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Complaints_about_the_FDC_process
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