[Wikimedia-l] letter from the FDC to the WMF

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Delirium, 23/10/2013 13:33:
>  From my perspective as someone not really involved in either the WMF or
> chapters (or other committees), but just an editor and a community
> member, I tend to see the WMF as "special"

Note that I wasn't saying it isn't "special" in some way, I was just 
saying that *that* argument didn't IMHO add good reasons for the WMF 
being special as regards this specific point, i.e. using a process which 
the WMF itself has created and which the WMF supposedly believes useful, 
given how much it has invested in it.

> in this sense because it
> already has a Board of Trustees that in a fairly reasonable way
> represent the community/movement,

This argument is a slippery slope and for this reason I was not touching 
it. Anyway, note that the most voted elected member of the FDC has 
received more votes than the most voted WMF board elected member. ;-)

Nemo

> who I trust to make decisions on
> funding priorities. Therefore it's not clear to me why *another*
> advisory board should be a second layer of bureaucracy evaluating its
> budget proposals. They are already evaluated by the Trustees primarily,
> and by the community as a whole secondarily, which seems like enough
> oversight. If the community disagrees with the WMF's direction or
> priorities, they can vote for different trustees in the next election,
> or otherwise suggest changes in its structure or membership. But in
> general I trust their judgment on how to allocate the Foundation's money
> in accordance with the mission.
>
> Best,
> Mark
>
>
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