On 18 March 2013 11:28, Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl> wrote: ... > I honestly don't believe that anyone with some basic understanding of > principles of organizational strategic planning would dispute that. > However, I entirely agree with Fae that we need a powerful, long-term > vision (and I believe that making all knowledge universally accessible is > quite good in this respect, and also appealing to donors for endowment).
As I have a MBA specializing in international strategy, hand in hand with a couple of decades as a consultant, I would count myself as having a basic understanding. ;-) > In other words, I completely do not understand why you insist that in spite > of a long term vision we also need a 100-year spanning strategy. But let's > assume we do: could you give examples of goals, say for year 10, year 20, > year 50?... I suggest you step away from the technology component before this becomes a mantra. Given a span of 100 years, assumptions become rather large. We can start to assume that within one or two decades, *everyone* on the planet is data-connected, we can assume that language barriers break down or become irrelevant, we can assume that connection and hardware costs become vanishingly small and we can assume that engagement with human knowledge is fully immersive. Developing a strategy would require some big thinking of scenarios: * Does Wikimedia get subsumed into a new ecology of open knowledge organizations? * Does "operations" become irrelevant as it will be naturally factored out? * In a future of cheap as chips access, does "access" mean socialization and education? Classically, one might bounce around environmental scenarios such as religious division, hyper-connection social instability (meme threats), population crisis etc. It's a big talk, and above was mentioned spending 5 years on this. Consider how darn slow us unpaid Wikimedia volunteers are to nit-pick our way forward, thinking of how we take longer than a year+ to reach some conclusions is not unreasonable, and it is not as easy as saying "quote examples" as if this was a discussion short-cut. Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
