My five cents here would be that how about considering longer time frames for grants, like 2-3-5 years (I was too tired to understandably explain this yesterday to Anasuya)
Here in Hungary individuals can offer 1% of their income tax to nonprofit organizations (these are accounted and transferred to the nonprofits by the state) These funds must be spent within 3 years (so not 1 but 3) from their reception (unused funds has to be transferred back at the end of the 3rd year). Cheers, Vince *Balazs Viczian* Executive Vice President *Wikimédia Magyarország Egyesület* Tel: +36 70 633 6372 Mail: balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu Web: www.wikimedia.hu Blog: Magyar Wikipédia Magazin<http://huwiki.blogspot.hu> Facebook: Magyar Wikipédia <https://www.facebook.com/hu.wikipedia> 2014/1/17 Anders Wennersten <m...@anderswennersten.se> > While I believe the "FDC process" by now is well understood and > communicated, I feel the understanding of the actual group, "FDC" and the > deliberation we perform is less well understood (and communicated) > > And if WMDE feedback will be elaborated upon, I think it will be of value > understanding "FDC" and the deliberation process and I have therefor put > down a short description of this on the talkpage, based on my own > experience as one of its member (1) > > I see very much in this feedback related to the prerequisites to the FDC, > not how we have implemented our inputs into recommendations. Also I think > some of the wanted more detailed feedback and interaction with the FDC as a > group is very hard to implement considering how our deliberation process > for now is set up . But feedback is always a good thing and hopefully this > feedback can be processed to improve the process and give all involved a > happier feeling of the funds dissemination in the future. > > Anders > > (1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/FDC_ > portal/Comments/Extensive_feedback_from_WMDE_to_the_FDC_ > process#FDC_as_a_group > > Pavel Richter skrev 2014-01-15 17:36: > > Hello everybody, >> >> I have just posted an extensive feedback from WMDE on the FDC process here >> on meta: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/ >> Comments/Extensive_feedback_from_WMDE_to_the_FDC_process >> >> The statement was drafted by WMDE's Supervisory Board and myself. >> >> We are very much looking forward to a discussion and I would like to >> encourage everybody to share their thoughts. At the same it would be great >> if we could keep the discussion on meta so that we have everything in one >> place. >> >> All the Best, >> >> Mit freundlichen Grüßen, >> >> Pavel Richter >> Vorstand >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. >> Tel.: +49 - 30 - 219 158 260 >> Twitter: @pavel >> _______________________________________________ >> 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> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>