Fine, let's call it strategy. Off-the-record, can you name some other organizations, preferably more or less in our industry, which have strategies longer than 20 years?
Other than that I think that your idea of discussing a dispersed archive is great and definitely worth covering, and beyond any doubt it is also a good reason to have an endowment for. best, dj On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Fae <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 March 2013 12:14, Dariusz Jemielniak <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > > As long as it is not really a strategy creation exercise, but rather an > > imagination stimulation and concept brainstorming, I think it is a great > > idea. But we should not mistake trying to look way too far beyond what we > > can see as great vision. It is guesswork. > > I'm happy to continue calling this part of strategy creation, while > you call it speculation or guesswork. > > However I believe it is perfectly clear that if the movement has no > 100 year plan, even in concept, and cannot set some top level goals to > show our commitment to a century long view, then a public call to > create a billion dollar endowment will quickly be shot down as banking > money for the sake of job security. > > An easy-peasy goal is to ensure all project knowledge content is > actively archived in a way that the commitment to preservation is > meaningfully demonstrated. Pointing to a reasonably future-proofed but > cost effective 100-year (multi-location) archive is one obvious way of > explaining what an endowment is for. > > PS I have heard the archive question answered recently by a > representative of the WMF on a radio interview as "Oh, it's all over > the internet, if we disappear it could always be re-created" (or words > to that effect) - I thought this a particularly naff answer for an > organization with many millions in the bank to spend on operational > risks. > > Thanks, > Fae > -- > [email protected] http://j.mp/faewm > Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae > > > -- __________________________ dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak profesor zarządzania kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego i centrum badawczego CROW Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
