Some further thoughts about reporting:
* Many affiliates already produce quantitative and qualitative information
for their grant reports. I would like to see much of that same information
about inputs and outputs included in annual reports, both for Global
Metrics and for custom metrics.
* I
I 100% agree with Pine. I have read very impressive annual reports without
any factual data. This 4 point as a small spreadsheet will specify the
reports and make there comparative.
With regards
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 4:11 AM Pine W wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This email is mainly addressed to
As a learning organization, it is already the case that the reporting
burden is often higher than the invested resources. It's been that way for
years. Fortunately, we have had the luck over the years to attract
dedicated volunteers all over the world to help out with the burden or give
feedback
Pine,
I totally agree with "I would like to see more peer leadership
from affiliates and less reliance on WMF for both grantmaking and
trademarks." I would hope that this type of thing is starting to show up in
the larger chapter/thorg/user group plans. I like the idea of custom
metrics,
Dear Pine,
Just as a thought experiment try to think through how your proposal would
work for an all-volunteer organisation:
A small group of volunteers starts some programme, and at the same time
they hire a contractor (issue an ad, check CVs, hold interviews, draw up a
contract, monitor and pay
I'm going to respond to both Chris and Gerard in one email.
Gerard:
* I agree that it's possible to over-bureaucratize projects, including
small projects. This is one of the reasons that I think that performance
analysis should mostly be done with staff or contractor time rather than
volunteer
Hi Pine,
Standardising reporting across affiliates is an attractive-sounding
idea in theory but turns out to be very difficult in practice.
A few issues that spring to mind:
- User Groups are meant to be a low-barrier-to-entry, lightweight form
of affiliation. Basically you need 10 people and a
Hoi,
Wonderful that you want to burden people with new standards. I have had
dealings with funding of the WMF. I delivered on time and for what I
delivered to work, the WMF had to do its stuff on time. They did not, my
project petered out and THEN they required me to jump through hoops
Hello,
This email is mainly addressed to Affcom and WMF but I would like to hear
others' comments also.
Some background information regarding the context for this email: the
recently published annual reports from user groups reminded me of some
issues that I first considered a few years ago. I
