After carefully reading the WMF Board of Trustees letter and evaluating the
first months of existence of the WCA, Wikimedia CH wants to make the following
statement:
Wikimedia CH has been supporting the idea of a Chapters Council since its
beginning. Our support is even stronger in these
On 5 February 2013 15:05, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
... Is it fair to assume that the WMF will take a dim view of
FDC-allocated funds being transferred to the WCA? I'm sure no chapters
anticipating an FDC allocation would like to put that at risk.
Would someone sitting on the FDC like to
hi Fae,
... Is it fair to assume that the WMF will take a dim view of
FDC-allocated funds being transferred to the WCA? I'm sure no chapters
anticipating an FDC allocation would like to put that at risk.
Would someone sitting on the FDC like to pick this one up?
there's nothing to pick
On 05.02.2013 16:18, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote:
there's nothing to pick up so far. The FDC has not held any meetings since
(obviously), and it generally operates within the mandate given by the
Board (which makes all decisions, FDC is only making recommendations). I
Strange world that of
Dariusz Jemielniak, 05/02/2013 16:18:
... Is it fair to assume that the WMF will take a dim view of
FDC-allocated funds being transferred to the WCA? I'm sure no chapters
anticipating an FDC allocation would like to put that at risk.
Would someone sitting on the FDC like to pick this one up?
Presumably Round 1 disbursements have already been made, which means that
the chapters in receipt of funds can choose to spend them how they see fit.
But I don't recall seeing plans to donate money to the WCA in funding
requests to the FDC, and I suspect that since the WMF has chosen not to
On 5 February 2013 15:30, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote:
On 05.02.2013 16:18, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote:
there's nothing to pick up so far. The FDC has not held any meetings since
(obviously), and it generally operates within the mandate given by the
Board (which makes all
On 05/02/2013 15:50, Nathan wrote:
I misspoke slightly; WCA fees were submitted in budget requests, but the
amounts were removed from the allocations themselves[1]. Sorry for the
inaccuracy there.
[1](
Those of you who have been following the discussion of the Chapters
Association may wish to read the statement written by the WMF board at our
recent meeting, which is now posted on the Meta talk page for the
Association; we encourage comments and discussion to take place on the wiki.
Link:
Kat Walsh, 05/02/2013 06:29:
[...]we encourage comments and discussion to take place on the wiki.
In this spirit, the Meta page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_Governance_Committee/Agenda_2012-2013#Advisory_board
is still waiting for an update with a summary of the
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