Thanks - I hope it wasn't too grueling a week for you and everyone else on the FDC. Jon.
On 24 November 2013 16:59, Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl> wrote: > Hello friends, > > The Funds Dissemination Committee meets twice annually to help make > decisions about how to effectively allocate movement funds to achieve the > Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. [1] > > On behalf of the committee, I am pleased to announce that Round 1 2013-2014 > recommendations to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees have now been > posted on Meta. [2] The WMF Board will make their decision on these > recommendations by 1 January 2014. > > For the first round of this fiscal year, the committee received 11 > proposals. [3] These eleven proposals came from ten chapters and one > thematic organization, totaling requests of $5.9 million USD. Prior to our > face-to-face deliberations in San Francisco from 17-21 November, the FDC > reviewed the proposals in careful detail, aided by staff assessments and > analysis on programs, finances, grant compliance and history, as well as > community comments on the proposals. Staff presented an overview of these > findings to the FDC during the deliberations. The FDC and FDC staff also > asked clarifying questions to the entities on the proposal form discussion > pages during the four-week community review period (and prior to the > publishing of staff assessments), and observed the discussions about the > proposals. > > The committee thanks all entities that submitted proposals, as it required > significant effort to both create the proposal and to respond to the > questions and feedback from the community, FDC, and FDC staff. We > sincerely appreciate them all for this work. > > For formal complaints or appeals about the recommendations, there is a > separate process that entities should follow. Note that at the request of > many stakeholders, we are clarifying the complaints and appeals terminology > so that complaints are made about the process to the ombudsperson and > appeals on the recommendations are made to the WMF Board representatives. > These are further explained below: > > Any entity that would like to submit an appeal on the FDC’s Round 1 > recommendation should submit it to the Board representatives to the FDC by > 23:59 UTC on 8 December 2013 in accordance with the appeal process outlined > in the FDC Framework. The process is as follows: > > Appeals to the WMF Board on the recommendations of the FDC (formerly called > complaints, terminology changed to avoid further confusion): > > * A formal appeal to challenge the FDC’s recommendation should be in the > form of a 500-or-fewer word summary directed to the two non-voting WMF > Board representatives to the FDC (Patricio Lorente and Bishakha Datta). > > * The appeal should be submitted on-wiki through the FDC portal page > designated for this purpose. [4] > > * Formal appeals can be submitted only by the Board Chair of a > funding-seeking entity. > > * Formal appeals must be filed within seven days of the deadline for > submission of the FDC slate of recommendations to the WMF Board, even if > the recommendations are published before the deadline for the > recommendations i.e. end-of-day 1 December 2013. The deadline for appeals > is the end-of-day UTC on 8 December. > > * These board representatives will present the appeal to the WMF Board at > the same time as the Board considers the FDC recommendation. However, all > responses to an appeal will be made seven days after the deadline for the > appeal, i.e. by end-of-day UTC 15 December 2013. > > * Any planned or approved disbursements to the organization filing an > appeal will be put on hold until the appeal is resolved. > > * If the WMF Board's consideration of the appeal results in an amendment of > the FDC's recommendations (which is expected only in extraordinary > circumstances), the WMF Board may choose to release extra funds from the > WMF reserves to provide additional funds not allocated by the FDC's initial > recommendation. > > * The Ombudsperson, as well as members of the WMF Board other than the > Board representatives, may participate in the investigation if approved by > the Chair of the WMF Board. > > Complaints to the ombudsperson about the FDC process (formerly called > appeals): > > * A complaint about the FDC process can be filed by anyone with the > Ombudsperson > and can be made any time during a particular round of the FDC process (e.g. > in this instance, from start July 2013 to end December 2013). > > * The complaint should be submitted on wiki, through the FDC portal page > designated for this purpose [5] > > * The ombudsperson will receive and publicly document the complaint, and > investigate the complaint, as needed. > > On behalf of the FDC, > > "pundit" Dariusz Jemielniak (FDC Chair) > > [1] > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Framework_for_the_Creation_and_Initial_Operation_of_the_FDC > > [2] > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2013-2014_round1 > > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals > > [4] > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Appeals_to_the_Board_on_the_recommendations_of_the_FDC > > [5] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Complaints_about_the_FDC_process > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. 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