We have said before that WMF does not generally share its legal contracts
with partners, and that the CIS MoU will not be shared by us. This has not
changed.
I am willing to answer any specific questions about the relationship with
CIS, as I have been, both in the current conversation and in previous ones.
That said, I would urge you to focus on providing the clearest and most
insightful input on CIS's concrete proposal, to assist the FDC in its
deliberations.
Pranav: your comment about the prettiness of the report is a straw-man. No
one has brought it up in the first place; what's more, in all the WMF's
grant program history, you will not find a single instance where we have
complained about a grant report's prettiness or lack thereof. This is, and
always has been, a complete non-issue.
Ravi: CIS's three-year commitment to the Goa university is indeed a risk.
Some Wikimedia organizations have taken similar risks with their own local
partners. In a way, this is hard to avoid, with the structure of our
funding system, where funding is given in single-year allocations.
A.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Pranav Curumsey <pranav(a)wikimedia.in>wrote;wrote:
Thank you, Asaf! The chapter has always promoted
transparency and welcomes
community input. It would be excellent if you could share the original CIS
MoU and all their reports submitted to you in the same spirit as you shared
this.
Unlike some others out here, we are not trained to make reports which look
snazzy. We are Wikipedians and not non profit professionals for whom this
is business so we like to keep it simple and to the point. We will try to
answer all questions to the best of our ability.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Hello, everyone.
Wikimedia India has recently submitted its latest grant report, which we
have now reviewed. It is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_IN/Program_Grant_April_Decemb…
We are still awaiting some more concrete information on impact and
outcomes of some of the work (see talk page) before we approve the report
and close the grant, but I thought it might interest some community members
to see, as one additional piece of input, in the context of the other
conversations about the future of work in India.
Cheers,
Asaf
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