Many thanks for the hard work. As I've been an observer to this round, and
as a former chair of the FDC for six rounds, I can attest that you have
done a very good job, discussing the details of all proposals.
While people may disagree with your recommendations or opinions, the
diligent approach and due care are, in my view, indisputable.
Best,
Dj
15.05.2016 7:30 PM "matanya moses" <matanya(a)foss.co.il> napisał(a):
Hello Wikimedians,
Twice a year, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets to help make
decisions about how to effectively allocate movement funds to achieve the
Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. For this round, we met
in person from May 13-15 to deliberate on five plans and proposals, which
were submitted by Wikimedia Armenia, Wikimedia Norge, Wikimedia France, the
Centre for Internet and Society, as well as the draft annual plan of the
Wikimedia Foundation. We would like to thank all the organizations this
round for submitting these proposals.
We have posted our Round 2 2015-2016 recommendations on the annual plan
grants to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. [1] The Board will
review our deliberations and make a decision by July 1, 2016.
This round, we received grant requests of roughly $1.25 million USD, and
we have recommended roughly $1.14 million in annual plan grants (though
grants are made in local currency). Before we met in May, we reviewed all
of the proposals and additional documents submitted. We were assisted in
this review with some input from the FDC staff assessments and analysis on
impact, finances, and programs, as well as community comments on the
proposals.
There is a formal process to submit complaints or appeals about these
recommendations. Here are the steps for both:
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
23:59 UTC on 8 June 2016 in accordance with the appeal process outlined in
the FDC Framework. 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 representative to the FDC, Dariusz Jemielniak. The
appeal should be submitted on-wiki, [4] and must be submitted by the Board
Chair of a funding-seeking applicant. The Board will publish its decision
on this and all recommendations by 1 July 2016.
Complaints to the ombudsperson about the FDC process can be filed by
anyone with the Ombudsperson and can be made any time. The complaint should
be submitted on wiki, as well. The ombudsperson will publicly document the
complaint, and investigate as needed.
On a side note, all FDC members are flying back to their home countries,
so we might be able to respond only in a day or two,
On behalf of the FDC,
Matanya [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_ro…
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