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> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:22:52 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Consultation & decision making (was: Board 
> decisions on movement funding and approval issues)
> 
> Lodewijk, 11/02/2014 19:36:
> > Maybe the board had a reason to rush through this decision without
> > consultation, but I still haven't heard any satisfying argument for that.
> 
> To me it seems rather obvious. The board (together with the WMF 
> executives?) is worried about more organisations asking money through 
> the processes the board itself set up, adding to complications on how to 
> limit spending growth etc. Instead of fixing the process, they chose to 
> take a shortcut and limit the pool of eligible requestors. It's a clear 
> pattern, because we have two precedents: the initial FDC resolution 
> which identified 4 special chapters; the out of process letter in which 
> they refused recognition to a prospective Wikimedia entity in order to 
> prevent AffCom and the grants programs to even start considering its 
> requests.
> 

And all of this on a rush "before a new ED is hired" -or rather "before the 
current ED leaves"...

M.


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