Many thanks (and much kudos to) Barry for responding in detail to my question on-wiki at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_Group
Thanks, Mike On 23 Apr 2012, at 22:07, Michael Peel wrote: > Hi Barry, > > It's great to see this moving forward, and for there to be an Advisory Group > established to facilitate this process. > > However, I'm concerned that the process of appointing this Advisory Group is > not particularly transparent. It's unclear as to why these members were > selected rather than the others that were nominated, particularly given the > fairly generic criteria that were (somewhat arbitrarily) set out by the WMF. > Given that this committee is intended to advise the dissemination of funds > for the movement at large, it would be good if this could be expanded upon in > public rather than kept confidential within the WMF. > > (I'm copying this query to > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_Group > - please also respond there.) > > Thanks, > Mike > > On 23 Apr 2012, at 20:04, Barry Newstead (WMF) wrote: > >> Hi - >> >> Per earlier communications, we have selected the Advisory Group to support >> the design process for the Funds Dissemination Committee in accordance with >> the formation process we laid out on Meta.[1] >> >> The FDC Advisory Group role and the names of the members can be found on >> Meta.[2] >> >> Thanks to all who were nominated for the Group and we hope that everyone >> will contribute to the process. >> >> Please do "watch" the Funds Dissemination Committee pages and contribute to >> the design process.[3] >> >> [1] >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_Group/Formation >> [2] >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_Group >> [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee >> >> >> Thanks, >> Barry >> >> -- >> Barry Newstead >> Chief Global Development Officer >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
