2014-11-24 11:28 GMT+01:00 Ilario Valdelli valdelli@gmail.com:
If you evaluate the ability to do projects, and not to find funds, the current measures are inconsistent.
Please note that the ability to raise funds isn't (and wasn't) under evaluation. As it has already being said fundraising needs capacity and time.
I remember that someone in WMF several years ago said that the chapters have to focus on projects because there is sufficient money to cut off the time of fundraising and to dedicate this time in more profitable time.
Now the strategy is changing. So the chapters have to find money.
I read a lot of incoherences in this statement and in general in what was said several years ago when the chapters where invited to don't be payment processors.
Yes, I remember that until very recently the messages from the Board were different. Now, what I am seeing rather clearly is this new general direction.
This was also written in the board guidance for the FDC: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2013-04-18#Guidance_for_the_FDC (see point n. 6) but basically nobody noticed it.
IMHO avoiding to point it out would now and as cleary as possible would have been irresponsible towards the chapters.
Cristian