Thank you for this announcement, though I am sorry to hear it. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Sue Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's an example: As you know, we have long wanted to create a > program making grants to volunteers -- both to chapters and individual > Wikimedians. Erik and I launched the chapters grantmaking process prior > to Jennifer's arrival, but by ourselves we didn't have capacity to put much > time into it. When she arrived, Jennifer picked it up and successfully made > grants to 21 chapters. We had wanted to expand the program to include > grants to individuals, which Jennifer would have done. With her leaving, > three things will happen. 1) The existing chapters grants still need to be > managed. 2) The launch of individual grants will be delayed. And 3) Our > longer-term, big-picture thinking about grantmaking will be slower to > evolve, because it won't benefit from having a person whose primary job > is thinking about that kind of work.
To this example: are there other ways for long-term big-picture thinking to evolve? Not only does this seem like one of many topics suitable for brainstorming during the strategy planning of the coming 9 months, but Jennifer has recently been discussing on Meta ways to tap into community interest in being part of grant-finding and grantmaking. There is a certain tradition of the latter -- the community organized the first technology grant for essential technical work six years ago. I expect there are community members with their own ideas and background in thinking and writing about such work - given the good example of the early chapters grants model, those interested could propose a variation suitable for individual grants, for example. SJ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
