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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:22:52 +0100 From: nemowiki@gmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Consultation & decision making (was: Board decisions on movement funding and approval issues)
Lodewijk, 11/02/2014 19:36:
Maybe the board had a reason to rush through this decision without consultation, but I still haven't heard any satisfying argument for that.
To me it seems rather obvious. The board (together with the WMF executives?) is worried about more organisations asking money through the processes the board itself set up, adding to complications on how to limit spending growth etc. Instead of fixing the process, they chose to take a shortcut and limit the pool of eligible requestors. It's a clear pattern, because we have two precedents: the initial FDC resolution which identified 4 special chapters; the out of process letter in which they refused recognition to a prospective Wikimedia entity in order to prevent AffCom and the grants programs to even start considering its requests.
And all of this on a rush "before a new ED is hired" -or rather "before the current ED leaves"...
M.
Nemo
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