Good to see the UK and three other chapters can still fundraise via the
annual fundraiser. Bad to see that they are still following their
centralisation agenda and limiting it to just those four chapters for the
next three years. I'm curious about the motion on dissemination, I think
this may be difficult to reconcile with our charitable status. But
hopefully that can be resolved by the board of WMUK pointing out that in at
least our case the community has to accept that some money will be under
decentralised control however much that goes against the wishes of the WMF.
I wouldn't worry about possible further centralisation after 2016, by then
the pendulum will have swung and centralisation will be out of favour. The
movement is by its nature global and decentralised, you can't work against
the grain for long before that reality hits you.
On a broader note I would suggest that the UK prioritise longterm funding
streams - payroll giving, and annual direct debits which may have a lower
attrition rate than monthly direct debits. Longer term we should think
about legacies. One of the flaws of the movement's current fundraising
model is the disconnect between our longterm ambitions and the short term
nature of our fundraising. I suspect that has already become an issue with
the GLAM sector. It would be really cool if in three years time we could
say "yes we've only existed for fourteen years, but even if all else went
phut tomorrow we already have an endowed data centre that could maintain a
read only version on the web for the foreseeable future."
WSC
On 30 March 2012 22:50, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Those of you not on Foundation-l might be interested
to see this post from
Ting, the chair of the Foundation board, which has some important
implications for the development of Wikimedia UK in future.
Regards,
Chris
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ting Chen <tchen(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:42 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear members of the community,
After having discussed the final aspects of this today I would like to
announce the following three resolutions
1) Board of Trustees Voting Transparency:
http://wikimediafoundation.**
org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_**Trustees_Voting_Transparency<http://wikim…
1) Fundraising 2012:
http://wikimediafoundation.**org/wiki/Resolution:**
Fundraising_2012<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundrais…
2) Funds Dissemination Committee:
http://wikimediafoundation.**
org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_**Committee<http://wikimediafoundation.org/…
For those of you who are currently in Berlin, we will have a 2 hour window
tomorrow to discuss this together, we invite you to send questions for this
session to Harel Cain (<harel.cain(a)gmail.com <mailto:harel.cain@gmail.com
>**) He will be moderating tomorrow's
session which will be similar to
the Q&A session we had in Paris.
We are currently working on a Question and Answer document which we will
publish as soon as possible.
Although the decision has now been made, we have a large number of
challenges ahead of us and I hope that we as a movement will come together
to make the Funds Dissemination Committee a success by working with us to
come up with answers tot the questions that we still have and helping to
make it work!
--
Ting Chen
Member of the Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
E-Mail: tchen(a)wikimedia.org