Hi everyone... again
Wikimedia France is just finishing the process of reorganizing.
I explained in a previous email the process we went through: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-April/071080.html
One risk we identified during that process is making the same mistakes again. This is something we definitely want to avoid.
We also want to work on building on everything we did so far. Improve how we are organized, have better evaluation of what we do and develop the tools and processes we need.
With those goals, we believe that we will need a period of time with as much stability as possible. To ensure that stability, we are going to try to cap our budget growth to 6% for the next 24 months.
This is a goal we might find ourselves unable to meet it, but we want to focus on the points described just above and if we put ourselves in a situation where we keep on growing, we will make it harder for us to focus on those goals.
This capping up to 6% could be overcome but only through if we financially valorize volunteering and external partners’ funding for a specific project. As the funds would be clearly allocated to this project, we believe it would be easily manageable.
That percentage will allow us to increase our employees salary and adjust the programs we run and expand their scope a little if we need to.
But the goal will be to force us to make choices between the programs we could do and focus on the most efficient ones regarding our evaluation matrix.
We will try to regularly share our work with the movement so other organizations can use it and give us feedback.
As usual, if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask them either on or off list.
All the best,
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