Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-05-26 Thread Pine W
Garfield, Sounds good. I look forward to seeing further development of the Plan. Thank you for your work on this. Partially because of my involvement with Cascadia Wikimedians' planning and budgeting, I'm aware of how much work is likely involved in developing WMF's annual plan. Pine On May 26,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-05-26 Thread Garfield Byrd
Hi Pine, I have answered your questions in the text of your email. Regards, Garfield On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Pine W wrote: > Hi Garfield, > > Thanks for this update. > > * Is this intended to be the last annual plan, as WMF shifts to a quarterly > planning cycle? If so, how will Fund

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-05-26 Thread Sam Klein
Thank you, Garfield. Pine W writes: > I am very interested in hearing what my fellow Wikimedians think of this > document, particularly those who have experience with managing our > affiliates and those with FDC experience Seconded! I found the FDC feedback last year enormously helpful. I kn

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-05-26 Thread Pine W
Hi Garfield, Thanks for this update. * Is this intended to be the last annual plan, as WMF shifts to a quarterly planning cycle? If so, how will Fundraising know how much money to raise each quarter/year? * Are SMART goals documented for each department? If so, where can we see them? * I see th

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-05-26 Thread Garfield Byrd
The draft Annual Plan for FY 15-16 is available for ​community input and ​ comments. Please post any suggestions on the Talk page

[Wikimedia-l] Moderation of Trillium Corsage, was Re: Moderation of Fae

2015-05-26 Thread Trillium Corsage
I wasn't going to join in, not wanting to affect Fae's situation with my own, but reading the latest emails he was actually concerned with the UK list, so I'll go ahead. Would someone mind taking me off moderation as well? I see what the issue was in the first place, and will not do it again. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation of Trillium Corsage, was Re: Moderation of Fae

2015-05-26 Thread Austin Hair
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Trillium Corsage wrote: > I wasn't going to join in, not wanting to affect Fae's situation with my own, > but reading the latest emails he was actually concerned with the UK list, so > I'll go ahead. > > Would someone mind taking me off moderation as well? I see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board election: we have such good candidates

2015-05-26 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hi David I could not agree more. I think that in general we have a great pool of talent, not just in the board candidates, but also in the FDC pool. Having attended the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin it was great to meet the volunteers from all the different affiliates and similarly: there is a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Meta Collaboration of the Month

2015-05-26 Thread Pharos
Election update - currently leading candidates for the oh-so-important MCOTM contest on meta are [[Events]], followed by [[Interchapter groups]] and [[Communications committee]] tied for second place. Vote today! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Circle/Meta_Collaboration_of_the_Month Thanks,