Dear Mike and FDC members,
Thank you for approaching us, we feel honoured and gladly agree to help
assessing the WMF FDC proposal.
Given the short time frame, we are only able to assess the Infrastructure
and Mobile part of the proposal. We will focus on the plan's
comprehensibility and its consistency with the strategy.
Please note that we will only be able to determine the detailed scope of
the assessment in the course of the analysis.
Thanks,
Nicole Ebber
International Affairs
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
http://wikimedia.de
On 24 Apr 2014 21:09, "Michael Peel" <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
Hi all,
This round of proposals to the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
presents a new and interesting challenge - that of reviewing the entirety
of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF's) plan for the next year. As part of
the FDC process, the WMF/FDC staff normally assemble a staff assessment of
each proposal. In this case, however, the WMF/FDC staff have a potential
bias here, since their work is included in the WMF's proposal.
As a result, we have asked Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE), the second
largest entity in our movement, to do the staff assessment of the WMF's
proposal, and they have agreed to do this. WMDE will be adapting the
framework of the standard staff assessment as they see fit in order to
appropriately assess the WMF's proposal; the main expectation we have is
that they will help identify the key strengths and weaknesses of the
proposal in their assessment. They will be sharing their assessment with
the WMF on the 7th May, on the same day that the FDC staff will share their
assessments with the other applicants, in both cases to check for factual
inaccuracies. The assessment will be posted publicly on the 8th May, on the
same day that the FDC staff will publicly post their assessments.
We would also like to encourage the other Wikimedia organisations to
review the WMF's proposal, and to post comments and questions on the talk
page for the proposal. It goes without saying that we also encourage
Wikimedia community members to also review the WMF's proposal, and the
other proposals in this round, and to similarly post comments and
questions. Community feedback is important for the FDC work. The FDC will
take all feedback into account during its deliberations next month. We will
also be inviting specific community members with particular
experience/skills to ask for their input on the proposals; please get in
touch if you have any suggestions of community members that should be
invited to do this.
Thanks,
Dariusz and Mike on behalf of the FDC
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