Craig, Patrik,
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Craig Franklin <cfranklin(a)halonetwork.net>
wrote:
The other danger of across the board cuts like this, especially where the
rationale is not clear, is that entities may start to inflate their
requests, factoring an expected 10% or 20% to be shaved off the top by the
FDC, thus leaving them with the figure that they *really *want. If the
rationale is clearly explained, this will probably be less of a factor.
the current framework ONLY allows to make across the board cuts. Sadly. We
would very much rather have a possibility to recommend some projects to be
funded or not, but these are unrestricted funds. In the case of WMDE, I
think we did make it abundantly clear that Wikidata is an excellent project
that should receive more funding. It would also be really valuable if the
Board considered multi-year funding for this particular project separately.
While we strive to be as detailed as possible in our recommendations, I
hope it is understandable that there is a difference in detail of reasoning
for a budget requested on the one hand, and for a recommended amount on the
other. For starters, as a committee, we may differ initially in recommended
allocations - it is the end result that is a consensus we worked out,
basing on different rationales. We have used many approaches and lenses to
see this (expense-side, project-side, staff-side, diversification of other
funding-side, etc.), but ultimately, our belief was that WMDE may need to
reflect on their role in the movement and how it spends the movement's
resources. Also, our recommendation was based on the quality of proposals
(judged comparatively, taking the amounts into account). Finally, we did
have to reflect on the fact that the total amounts of requests exceeded our
overall budget (but this consideration was not driving our decisionmaking,
we in fact were discussing a possibility of recommending budget increase,
if all projects were outstanding).
Nemo: absolutely no hostility meant towards technological decentralization!
Speaking only for myself, I believe that the more our movement is relying
on various resources (including technologies) the better.
best,
dariusz "pundit"
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prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak
kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego
i centrum badawczego CROW
Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl
członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk
członek Komitetu Polityki Naukowej MNiSW
Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An
Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University Press) mojego
autorstwa
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
Recenzje
Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
Pacific Standard:
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/killed-wikipedia-93777/
Motherboard:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-ethnography-of-wikipedia
The Wikipedian:
http://thewikipedian.net/2014/10/10/dariusz-jemielniak-common-knowledge