Hi Nemo, Cascadia Wikimedians' current discussions with Affcom and WMF
Legal are about some wording on the Affiliation Agreement document. We have
not discussed becoming a chapter in any great detail, and as you note the
WMF Board created a longevity requirement. We have had informal meetings in
Hello Pine,
Although we cannot commit to a systematic 14-day response time for all
inquiries, I do think that would be reasonable for routine inquiries,
depending on the amount of collaboration outside of the legal department.
As mentioned, AffCom is independent from the legal department, so I
Thank you for that information, Asaf, Kirill, and James.
James: my point still stands that somehow at IEGCom we are able to respond
substantively to almost 100% if inquiries within 7 days. It seems to me
that if we can do this at IEGCom, then asking Legal and Affcom to commit to
substantively
Hi Pine,
I think nobody wants to say that questions should take longer to get
answered - we all would like your inquiries to be answered sooner rather
than later. To accomplish this, the Committee has made changes in its
workflow several times in the past year, to especially make user group
Hi Lodewijk,
Let me make a few points:
1. I appreciate that Affcom is working to make its outputs more timely,
especially for user group decisions.
2. I hear you say that you are under-resourced with volunteers and staff
support. I appreciate that serving on Affcom is probably one of the more
Hi Pine,
We are actively following the case of Cascadia Wikimedians to see whether
we can facilitate the signing of the user group agreement between the user
group and WMFLegal (the group's recognition has been approved by AffCom in
September -- apologies in any delays you have experienced up to
Pine W, 11/10/2014 22:05:
4. We in Cascadia Wikimedians (and I imagine other thematic organizations)
have our own timelines that we need to deal with, and needing to wait
indefinitely for Affcom and Legal to make decisions [...]
a) Be aware it's impossible to understant what you're talking
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
3. I don't hear of a need for more staff support for Affcom from the most
recent Grantmaking quarterly review [1], so I am not sure if and when
this is going to happen. This may be a point that Asaf can address.
The idea of
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kirill, my understanding is that Affcom functions under the Legal
department, much like the Individual Engagement Grants Committee functions
under the Grantmaking department. Is that so, and if not, which department
is
That's correct. And for completeness, I am the primary staff liaison to
AffCom, with Stephen LaPorte providing support on legal matters.
A.
On Oct 10, 2014 3:40 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kirill,
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