Sorry to top-post (Blackberry). Yes, the progress towards the goals will be published to the community. Omidyar wants to support us in doing our work, so we worked together to define what success will look like (as per the Q and A). Those were very good conversations, in which they essentially agreed with us on what's important -- overall global reach, overall global participation, the importance of a broad base of donors supporting our work, and the successful completion of the strategy project. That is all good: it's stuff we care about, and would track and report on anyway. It's a completely unrestricted grant, supporting our own goals and priorities.
My apologies for the way this information reached you all. (I'm not criticizing Greg: forwarding the press release was the obvious and right thing for him to do.) I'm just sorry that the detailed information didn't reach foundation-l from the Wikimedia Foundation itself, first. Suffice to say that connectivity at both the venue and hotel has been super-patchy today, and was unexpectedly down all afternoon :-( Thanks, Sue On 25/08/2009, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Erik and Jan-Bart, for the additional information and the Q & A. > Appointing board members from donor organizations can be tricksy, > particularly as the relationships in question evolve. Hopefully it goes > smoothly. > On the reporting requirements built into the grant - will the information > reported to the Omidyar Network be reported to the community as well? I > think we'd all be interested to read updates on those topics. > > Nathan > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation 415 839 6885 office 415 816 9967 cell Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
