On 08/27/11 4:34 PM, Delphine Ménard wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Ray Saintonge<sainto...@telus.net> wrote: >>> If it were only the chapters themselves at stake (as is the case when >>> they raise funds independently), then they could get money first and >>> organization second. But the WMF shares in the risk, and is offering >>> organizational support to chapters, so cart before horse does not make >>> sense. >> There's a difference between organizational support and organizational >> takeover. One possible solution might be to not allow chapters to >> participate in the global fundraiser unless they already have a suitable >> organization in place, but that could make it more difficult for the WMF >> to take a piece of the chapter's action. > Which brings up the question: how do chapters ever get to the point of > being organisationally ready if they never take a crack at doing > fundraising on their own? Pleasing donors near you brings on an > incomparable motivation to do great things and adapt our mission to > what is expected and needed in a given region. Pleasing the Wikimedia > Foundation somehow does not, seem to me to have the same potential. > You know, the very old parable of giving a fish and teaching to > fish... > Legal and financial arguments aside, if the perception grows that the WMF is trying to concentrate decision-making in San Francisco it is bound to inspire nationalist sentiments in many countries. I really don't think it's prepared to handle that.
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