Thanks Phoebe. I'm glad to hear that the WMF has used almost no donated money in staff costs running this global referendum.
As a member of the board you may want to consider what it means in terms of operational accountability if such a large exercise with massive impact on our community has no measurable costs due to staff not reporting their time against it. I am puzzled at how your programme managers ever decide when to cancel projects if the resources they are consuming are not reported. With regard to your comments about massive and possibly excessive use of "free" volunteer time, as a UK charity we are interested in improving how we measure e-volunteer effort spent on our projects as we believe that we should take care to avoid volunteer "burn-outs" (which we see too many of) or using up all of the good will that is represented by the efforts of our volunteers, of which I am one, without maximizing the impact on our mission. Perhaps WMF could consider the same issues when judging the success of its projects? Cheers, Fae _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
