2014-02-03 Nathan <[email protected]>: > I'm sure that the WMIL Board put a lot of thought into this decision, but I > think it's a mistake. The Wikimedia movement is by nature global, > cooperative and collective. I don't see how it will benefit either WMIL or > the movement as a whole if Israeli participants withdraw from international > cooperation and activity, even if they are able and willing to redirect the > same energy to local fundraising efforts. > > Maybe the FDC did something wrong in that some applicants did not take the > 20% increase guardrail seriously. I hope that FDC messaging and > communication can be improved in the future so that recipients of large > grant increases feel grateful instead of insulted, because it is an > obviously poor outcome if an institution receives two hundred thousand > dollars of donor money and is so upset that it announces it is all but > exiting the international community. >
It think the most serious long term problem is with the current model of subidaring chapters and thematic groups. There is no any stress put on chapters to be self-sustainable and we have now more and more mid-size chapters which want to grow but still be financially depended on money from WMF. Instead there is a tendency to keep control over the money in one place, although it is collected globaly. So, chapters have no good reason, no chance to be really self-sustainable, and they rather treat themselves as grantees of WMF. It is quite obvious that such a system is not going to work for ever and it is obvious that growing chapters sooner or later must reach the ceiling which will block their progress... -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
