+1
I want to join Jat-Bart and thanks the FDC for the great work they did again. I'm also happy to see improvement in the process and to see that this round the FDC published more detailed feedback of their recommendations.
I found their feedback of the WMF proposal as a very mature and profound, and highlight some of us a very interesting issues to look for, and I know that wasn't been so easy to do so.
I also want to congratulate WMFR for being the first chapter over the lasts 2 rounds to be recommended to be fully funded, although they requested 50% higher allocation from the last year allocation. WMFR proposal is indeed very professional and interesting one which posed a high bar for everyone on the next rounds. Well done WMFR!
Itzik WMIL
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede <jdevreede@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi Dariusz (& Everyone)
On behalf of the Board of Trustees allow me to once again thank the FDC and involved WMF Staff members for all the work that has gone into this round. I am looking forward to discussing the future of the FDC with you and all the others in the coming days as we convene with the FDC Advisory Group.
Also thanks to all those who have participated in the public discussions on the different proposals, it is what makes us truly unique as an organisation!
Thank you,
Jan-Bart de Vreede Chair Wikimedia Board of Trustees
On 24 May 2014, at 15:51, Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
Hello friends,
The Funds Dissemination Committee meets twice annually to help make decisions about how to effectively allocate movement funds to achieve the Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. [1]
On behalf of the committee, I am pleased to announce that Round 2
2013-2014
recommendations to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees have now
been
posted on Meta [2]:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2013-2014_roun...
The WMF Board will make their decision on these recommendations by 1 July 2014.
For the second round of this fiscal year, the committee received four proposals. [3] These four proposals came from two chapters, WMF and one non-Wikimedia organization, totaling requests of '''$1.56''' million USD. Prior to our face-to-face deliberations in Frankfurt from 21st-24th May, the FDC reviewed the proposals in careful detail, aided by staff assessments and analysis on programs, finances, grant compliance and history, as well as community comments on the proposals. Staff presented
an
overview of these findings to the FDC during the deliberations. The FDC
and
FDC staff also asked clarifying questions to the entities on the proposal form discussion pages during the four-week community review period (and prior to the publishing of staff assessments), and observed the
discussions
about the proposals.
The committee thanks all organizations that submitted proposals, as it required significant effort to both create the proposal and to respond to the questions and feedback from the community, FDC, and FDC staff. We sincerely appreciate them all for this work.
For formal complaints or appeals about the recommendations, there is a separate process that entities should follow. Note that at the request of many stakeholders, we are clarifying the complaints and appeals
terminology
so that complaints are made about the process to the ombudsperson and appeals on the recommendations are made to the WMF Board representatives. These are further explained below:
Any organization that would like to submit an appeal on the FDC’s Round 2 recommendation should submit it to the Board representatives to the FDC
by
'''end of day UTC 8 June 2014''' in accordance with the appeal process outlined in the FDC Framework. The process is as follows:
Appeals to the WMF Board on the recommendations of the FDC (formerly
called
complaints, terminology changed to avoid further confusion):
- A formal appeal to challenge the FDC’s recommendation should be in the
form of a 500-or-fewer word summary directed to the two non-voting WMF Board representatives to the FDC (Patricio Lorente and Bishakha Datta).
- The appeal should be submitted on-wiki through the FDC portal page
designated for this purpose. [4]
- Formal appeals can be submitted only by the Board Chair of a
funding-seeking organization.
- Formal appeals must be filed within seven days of the deadline for
submission of the FDC slate of recommendations to the WMF Board, even if the recommendations are published before the deadline for the recommendations i.e. end-of-day '''1 June 2014'''. The deadline for
appeals
is the end-of-day UTC on '''8 June 2014'''.
- These board representatives will present the appeal to the WMF Board at
the same time as the Board considers the FDC recommendation. Responses to an appeal will be made alongside the overall decision on the FDC recommendations, i.e. by end-of-day UTC '''1 July 2014'''.
- Any planned or approved disbursements to the organization filing an
appeal will be put on hold until the appeal is resolved.
- If the WMF Board's consideration of the appeal results in an amendment
of
the FDC's recommendations (which is expected only in extraordinary circumstances), the WMF Board may choose to release extra funds from the WMF reserves to provide additional funds not allocated by the FDC's
initial
recommendation.
- The Ombudsperson, as well as members of the WMF Board other than the
Board representatives, may participate in the investigation if approved
by
the Chair of the WMF Board.
Complaints to the ombudsperson about the FDC process (formerly called appeals):
- A complaint about the FDC process can be filed by anyone with the
Ombudsperson and can be made any time during a particular round of the
FDC
process (e.g. in this instance, from start '''1 April 2014''').
- The complaint should be submitted on wiki, through the FDC portal page
designated for this purpose [5]
- The ombudsperson will receive and publicly document the complaint, and
investigate the complaint, as needed.
On behalf of the FDC,
"pundit" Dariusz Jemielniak (FDC Chair)
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Framework_for_t...
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2013-2014_roun...
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals
[4]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Appeals_to_the_Board_on_the_recomm...
[5]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Complaints_about_the_FDC_process
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