Many chapters are shocked at this announcement, and there is a likely conversation on internal-l, which has followed after a blog conversation which was reported in the Signpost (see first item in "News in brief").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-01/News_and_notes The chapters organised and sent people to a Fundraising Summit in June, and the Fundraising Agreement was on the agenda. The WMF was there. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Fundraising_Summit After the summit, the chapters then signed the Fundraising Agreement with the WMF. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Chapter_Fundraising_Agreement This recent announcement from the WMF has many, albeit minor, differences to the agreement that was recently signed. -- John Vandenberg On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Theo10011 <[email protected]> wrote: > Nathan, there is no reason to single out Beria. She at least responded to > the questions. There are a lot of people reading this who didn't and have > far more authority to comment on the matter than her. > > Theo > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Beria, I don't think your views on transparency as stated mesh all >> that well with the character of this list. I'd suspect the same is >> true of the wider community of editors and donors; the assertion that >> details be discussed in private is both improper and at distinct odds >> with the history of the WMF. If chapters prefer that their actions not >> be subject to the oversight of the WMF and Wikimedia community, then >> they should do their own fundraising and develop their own trademarks. >> >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Béria Lima <[email protected]> wrote: >> > If they do revoke (which they can, because do report are part of Chapter >> > Agreement), will be also a private discussion. I do understand your >> people >> > curiosity to know what they discusses, but all the relevant info are >> public. >> > Only particular details are handle in private >> > _____ >> > *Béria Lima* >> > <http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484 >> > >> > *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter >> livre >> > acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a >> > fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.* >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
