[Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Ting Chen
Hello dear all, now the second mail Funding of international operating organizations is a very complicated issue. The Wikimedia movement is not the first and not the last one to face this topic. There are as many models on how this can be handled as there are international organizations.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Russavia
Ting, On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: Hello dear all, I believe you have sent this to the wrong list. I believe applications for the Executive Director position were supposed to be sent to j...@wikimedia.org ... but good luck with your application all the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Richard Symonds
Thanks for this Ting. I won't offer an opinion but this is certainly food for thought and will no doubt generate discussion. When you say Who remembers CHIP?, what are you referring to? I don't remember anything called CHIP but I was not very active in movement organisations before 2 years ago.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Anders Wennersten
Thanks Ting for some very interesting thoughts and for giving a few ideas of alternative set up of the movement. It ought to be a good input to the sessionre-imagine Wikipedia movement on Saturday at the Chapter Meeitng My reflection is that you are discussing a more decentralized approach,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread mathias . damour
Hi, Message du 10/04/14 15:28 De : Anders Wennersten A : wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Copie à : Objet : Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure (...) And I would be unhappy if the divergence between project became too big, POV paid editing etc we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: Thanks Ting for some very interesting thoughts and for giving a few ideas of alternative set up of the movement. It ought to be a good input to the sessionre-imagine Wikipedia movement on Saturday at the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Balázs Viczián
is already public then sorry, I was unable to locate it myself. Balazs 2014-04-10 16:20 GMT+02:00 mathias.dam...@laposte.net: Hi, Message du 10/04/14 15:28 De : Anders Wennersten A : wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Copie à : Objet : Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread
On 10 April 2014 16:23, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote: ... I do not think that decentralized funding is very good against corruption. ... I would add a far more common issue than fraud, and one that costs us far, far more money. Competent management. Our Foundation and Chapters