The problem is that any change means "change management".
I would say that the board must evaluate the impact of any change they are bringing using the same effort they use to evaluate an impact of a project.
Any change means change manegemtn (as said) to adapt the current organization to this change.
A change means: money, time, review of strategy, review of organization, review of scope of the organization.
Basically the time needed to find money and to adapt the organization to the changes is more or less similar to the time needed to do projects.
Now I will come back to the FDC: I would expect from the FDC a dedicated section to say that the chapters need resources to finance this change and this resources *cannot be financed with external funds* because it's a request of the board of WMF and the board of WMF must also define the financial resources to adapt this change.
The realistic approach of the FDC would be: the chapters are required to adapt their organization and their strategy to this decision, so WMF will finance the chapters to *apply this change*.
It cannot be done with external funds or with money of the chapters, because it's not a decision of the donors or of the General Assembly.
In any governance aspect it's important to understand that any change is connected with a risk management and with a specific budget to manage the change because any change can have the biggest impact in the organization and probably this impact cannot be rollbacked without spending additional resources.
regards
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com wrote:
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
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