Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Community Consultation on strategic approaches

2016-01-19 Thread Luis Villa 
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Pine W  wrote:

> 2. You wrote, "This is a major step to help us prioritize the work of the
> Foundation beginning in July 2016 and running for the next 12 to 24 months
> thereafter into a strategic plan." It seems that there will be some overlap
> in the development of the 2016-2017 Annual Plan, and that the completion
> of
> the strategic plan process will come too late to significantly influence
> the AP until after the AP is already being executed. Can you share with us
> which principles are being used to guide the development of the 2016-2017
> Annual Plan which this document [1] is scheduled to be published for
> community review on March 31, 2016?
>

We mentioned this briefly in the FAQ
,
but let me elaborate here:

"We also need to finalize the Foundation’s strategy quickly, so that we can
meet our 2016 Annual Plan deadlines and align our team and department
strategies with the overall strategy."


In other words, we really are waiting on the results of the public
discussion before making our biggest annual plan choices. :) This is part
of why the process is somewhat rushed; if we planned to use *other* principles,
we could have had a multi-month process, but we really do want to use the
outcome of this process to help guide the annual plan, so we do have to
make it a bit tighter than we might otherwise have liked.

We're splitting things up into "core" and "strategic" to help make this
process fit together better: that will allow us to do initial planning on
issues we expect will not be affected by strategy (e.g., "keep servers on")
while waiting for the outcome of the public discussion.

(For those who are curious for more details, I also addressed this somewhat
in my metrics meeting talk

last week, and the question
 at
the end of it.)

Hope that helps answer that question-
Luis

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Sr. Director of Community Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Launch of Community Consultation on strategic approaches

2016-01-18 Thread Lila Tretikov 
Dear Wikimedians,



We are excited to have you participate in an important Community Engagement
regarding our strategic approaches. This is a major step to help us
prioritize the work of the Foundation beginning in July 2016 and running
for the next 12 to 24 months thereafter into a strategic plan.

Throughout 2015 the Foundation has been exploring how to prioritize its
work to best support the movement's goals, set forth, but not yet reached,
in the 2010-15 strategic plan.

The strategic approaches presented here are based on our vision, strategy
consultations in 2010 
and 2015
,
research on external impacts, and input from staff and a few small
community think groups on key challenges and potential solutions.

Timeline: These are our target dates for this process.

   -

   January 11: Put up pages for translation (done)
   -

   January 18: Launch of community consultation on key questions
   -

   February 15: Close of consultation
   -

   By February 26: Release synthesis of consultation
   -

   By March 4: Publish first draft strategy for comment


We appreciate your time and efforts to help guide the Foundation in its
work to support the movement.

Warm regards,

Lila
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Community Consultation on strategic approaches

2016-01-18 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak 
Many thanks, Lila - this is a good step in our joint conceptualizing, where
we want to go. I'm glad we've made it this year, in spite of a tight
schedule.

dj

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Lila Tretikov  wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
>
>
> We are excited to have you participate in an important Community Engagement
> regarding our strategic approaches. This is a major step to help us
> prioritize the work of the Foundation beginning in July 2016 and running
> for the next 12 to 24 months thereafter into a strategic plan.
>
> Throughout 2015 the Foundation has been exploring how to prioritize its
> work to best support the movement's goals, set forth, but not yet reached,
> in the 2010-15 strategic plan.
>
> The strategic approaches presented here are based on our vision, strategy
> consultations in 2010 
> and 2015
> ,
> research on external impacts, and input from staff and a few small
> community think groups on key challenges and potential solutions.
>
> Timeline: These are our target dates for this process.
>
>-
>
>January 11: Put up pages for translation (done)
>-
>
>January 18: Launch of community consultation on key questions
>-
>
>February 15: Close of consultation
>-
>
>By February 26: Release synthesis of consultation
>-
>
>By March 4: Publish first draft strategy for comment
>
>
> We appreciate your time and efforts to help guide the Foundation in its
> work to support the movement.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Lila
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prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak
kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego
i grupy badawczej NeRDS
Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
http://n wrds.kozminski.edu.pl

członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk
członek Komitetu Polityki Naukowej MNiSW

Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An
Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University Press) mojego
autorstwa http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010

Recenzje
Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
Pacific Standard:
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/killed-wikipedia-93777/
Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-ethnography-of-wikipedia
The Wikipedian:
http://thewikipedian.net/2014/10/10/dariusz-jemielniak-common-knowledge
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Community Consultation on strategic approaches

2016-01-18 Thread Pine W 
Hi Lila,

A few questions:

1. What is the URL for the 2016 consultation?

2. You wrote, "This is a major step to help us prioritize the work of the
Foundation beginning in July 2016 and running for the next 12 to 24 months
thereafter into a strategic plan." It seems that there will be some overlap
in the development of the 2016-2017 Annual Plan, and that the completion of
the strategic plan process will come too late to significantly influence
the AP until after the AP is already being executed. Can you share with us
which principles are being used to guide the development of the 2016-2017
Annual Plan which this document [1] is scheduled to be published for
community review on March 31, 2016?

3. Could you clarify, in the 2016-2017 AP plan timeline [1], what the
difference is between "core work" and "strategic work"?

4. What methodology is WMF using for developing the 3-year forward revenue
forecast, and is WMF incorporating into this forecast any new potential
varieties of revenue?

I will likely have further questions as we go through these processes.

Thanks!
Pine


[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ys1JLDhpT93BrduEuA4jE3_RYOYHqakiyvR8LASgPCk/edit

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Lila Tretikov  wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
>
>
> We are excited to have you participate in an important Community Engagement
> regarding our strategic approaches. This is a major step to help us
> prioritize the work of the Foundation beginning in July 2016 and running
> for the next 12 to 24 months thereafter into a strategic plan.
>
> Throughout 2015 the Foundation has been exploring how to prioritize its
> work to best support the movement's goals, set forth, but not yet reached,
> in the 2010-15 strategic plan.
>
> The strategic approaches presented here are based on our vision, strategy
> consultations in 2010 
> and 2015
> ,
> research on external impacts, and input from staff and a few small
> community think groups on key challenges and potential solutions.
>
> Timeline: These are our target dates for this process.
>
>-
>
>January 11: Put up pages for translation (done)
>-
>
>January 18: Launch of community consultation on key questions
>-
>
>February 15: Close of consultation
>-
>
>By February 26: Release synthesis of consultation
>-
>
>By March 4: Publish first draft strategy for comment
>
>
> We appreciate your time and efforts to help guide the Foundation in its
> work to support the movement.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Lila
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