Hoi, There are two areas where the Wikimedia Foundation is active; the USA where it is active through both chapters and the office in San Francisco. The rest of the world where it is active through chapters and whatever.
Does the funding gap limit the office in the same way it does the rest of the world or, does it only limit the USA chapters?
When you consider countries like China, India and Indonesia you have countries where the WMF has hardly invested and where the effect of investment has the likelihood of a much bigger return on investment.
What I would like to know is how this will effect the growth of our movement where there is a huge potential in additional people interested in our content. Thanks, GerardM
On 11 February 2014 06:33, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I want to draw your attention to two Wikimedia Board of Trustees decisions that were recently published, regarding funds allocated to the FDC/Annual plan grant process and Board approval of chapter/thematic organization status. In a nutshell, the Board decided to allocate approximately the same amount of funding to the FDC for the next two years. The Board also decided that new organizations should first form as a user group and have two years of programmatic experience before being approved as a legally incorporated entity (either a chapter or thematic organization).
The decisions are published in the meeting minutes here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2013-11-24#Movement_roles
There is also a FAQ on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_FAQ
You will notice these decisions are published in the minutes for the November meeting. We originally took these decisions at that meeting; however as the FAQ explains it took us some time to talk to community groups, clarify our wording and write the FAQ.
Hopefully the FAQ will answer many of your questions about these decisions; however, if there are other questions please do ask them, here or on the meta talk page. Thank you!
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