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 <chriskeatingw...@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 <tc...@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 <foundatio...@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://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Transparency> > 1) Fundraising 2012: http://wikimediafoundation.**org/wiki/Resolution:** > Fundraising_2012<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_2012> > 2) Funds Dissemination Committee: http://wikimediafoundation.** > org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_**Committee<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee> > > 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.c...@gmail.com <mailto:harel.c...@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: tc...@wikimedia.org > >
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