On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 April 2012 10:02, Jan-Bart de Vreede <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Thomas, >> >> Getting the FDC "right" will be the most important thing to being able to >> provide resources to chapters and others that have great plans that further >> our movement goals. Doing this in a transparent and open way is an important >> requirement to getting it right. Not sure why you would want to rush this >> through? > > I don't want to rush it, I want to do it efficiently. I'll ask again, > what questions is it that you want to answer with the process? > > With anything like this, there are basically three questions: > > 1) What needs to be done? > 2) Who is going to do it? > 3) How are they going to do it? > > We already know the answer to the first question - it's in the > resolution calling for the creation of the committee - and it is > usually best to leave the third question for the committee to work out > for themselves. That just leaves deciding on the membership. We don't > need this lengthy and expensive process to work that out, we just need > to go on meta and talk about it until we reach a consensus (or, > failing that, until all the relevant points have been made and the WMF > board can make a final decision).
Go here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_Group/Formation#Nominations_.28to_be_added_below.29 > 12 people spending 4 hours a week, plus meetings including some > in-person meetings (which includes lots of expensive travel and > accommodation, as well as a lot of time), is an enormous amount of > time and money. I think we need to be very clear about what we > actually want to achieve with all that time and money. Participation includes a free trip to San Fran on Saturday, June 9th: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_Group/Formation#Likely_Advisory_Group_meeting_dates -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
