[Wikimedia-l] FDC Recommendations for 2015-2016 Round 2

[matanya moses]

Hello Wikimedians,

Twice a year, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets to help  
make decisions about how to effectively allocate movement funds to  
achieve the Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. For  
this round, we met in person from May 13-15 to deliberate on five  
plans and proposals, which were submitted by Wikimedia Armenia,  
Wikimedia Norge, Wikimedia France, the Centre for Internet and  
Society, as well as the draft annual plan of the Wikimedia Foundation.  
We would like to thank all the organizations this round for submitting  
these proposals.


We have posted our Round 2 2015-2016 recommendations on the annual  
plan grants to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. [1] The  
Board will review our deliberations and make a decision by July 1, 2016.


This round, we received grant requests of roughly $1.25 million USD,  
and we have recommended roughly $1.14 million in annual plan grants  
(though grants are made in local currency). Before we met in May, we  
reviewed all of the proposals and additional documents submitted. We  
were assisted in this review with some input from the FDC staff  
assessments and analysis on impact, finances, and programs, as well as  
community comments on the proposals.


There is a formal process to submit complaints or appeals about these  
recommendations. Here are the steps for both:


Any organization that would like to submit an appeal on the FDC’s  
Round 2 recommendation should submit it to the Board representatives  
to the FDC by 23:59 UTC on 8 June 2016 in accordance with the appeal  
process outlined in the FDC Framework. A formal appeal to challenge  
the FDC’s recommendation should be in the form of a 500-or-fewer word  
summary directed to the two non-voting WMF Board representative to the  
FDC, Dariusz Jemielniak. The appeal should be submitted on-wiki, [4]  
and must be submitted by the Board Chair of a funding-seeking  
applicant. The Board will publish its decision on this and all  
recommendations by 1 July 2016.


Complaints to the ombudsperson about the FDC process can be filed by  
anyone with the Ombudsperson and can be made any time. The complaint  
should be submitted on wiki, as well. The ombudsperson will publicly  
document the complaint, and investigate as needed.


On a side note, all FDC members are flying back to their home  
countries, so we might be able to respond only in a day or two,


On behalf of the FDC,

Matanya [1]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_round_2


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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Results of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

[matanya moses]

Greetings,

The certified results of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
election are now available on Meta-Wiki: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Results 

Congratulations to María Sefidari (User:Raystorm), Dariusz Jemielniak 
(User:pundit), and James Heilman (User:Doc James) for receiving the most 
community support. Subject to a standard background check, they will be 
appointed by the Board at their August meeting at Wikimania.

These results have been certified by the elections committee, the Wikimedia 
Foundation staff advisors to the committee, and the Board of Trustees.

There were 5,581 votes cast, with 5,120 of those being valid. The 461-vote 
difference comes from recast ballots, where eligible voters recast ballots to 
change their votes, and struck votes, of which there were 34. (Some of the 
recast votes were also struck.)

Additional information is available on the Wikimedia Blog: 
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/20/board-of-trustees-elections-2017/ 

More statistics on the elections and a post-mortem from the committee will be 
published in the coming days. In the meantime, we would appreciate your 
input—what went well for you in this election?  What could we do better next 
time?  These reports are crucial to helping future elections be even more 
successful, and we hope that you will offer your feedback and ideas: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Post_mortem 

The committee would like to thank everyone that participated in this year’s 
election for helping make it, again, one of the most diverse and representative 
in the movement’s history.

Sincerely,
– Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

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[Wikimedia-l] Delay of Board of Trustees election

[Matanya Moses]

Hi all,
 
I am reaching out to you today with an update about the timing of the voting 
for the Board of Trustees election. 
 
As many of you are already aware, this year we are offering an Election Compass 
to help voters identify the alignment of candidates on some key topics. Several 
candidates requested an extension of the character limitation on their 
responses expanding on their positions, and the Elections Committee felt their 
reasoning was consistent with the goals of a fair and equitable election 
process. 
 
To ensure that the longer statements can be translated in time for the 
election, the Elections Committee and Board Selection Task Force decided to 
delay the opening of the Board of Trustees election by one week - a time 
proposed as ideal by staff working to support the election. 
 
Although it is not expected that everyone will want to use the Election Compass 
to inform their voting decision, the Elections Committee felt it was more 
appropriate to open the voting period with essential translations for community 
members across languages to use if they wish to make this important decision.
 
The voting will open on August 23 at 00:00 UTC and close on September 6 at 
23:59 UTC.
 
Best regards,
 
Matanya, on behalf of the Elections Committee
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