Identifying priority areas and directing resources (funds and human) toward them is a non-controversial way to achieve goals.
This is exactly what is happening with this targeted campaign. The grants team has made it clear that during this round it intends to work with people and organizations that have urgent time sensitive needs. It is a legitimate to question whether it makes sense to keep having an ongoing open call for grant proposals instead of a period for targeted requests when the top priorities of the wikimedia movement are not being addressed with the current process. That this particular targeted campaign is not *perfectly executed* does not take this legitimate topic off the table. Sydney Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoe...@gmx.net> wrote: > * Sydney Poore wrote: > >It appears to me that you are entirely missing the actual nature of the > >problem and the reason for having a campaign targeted at the gender gap. > > > >The *problem* is that there have been a suboptimal number of grant > requests > >for funds to address the gender gap even though it a listed priority of > the > >WMF. > > Denying attention and funds to unrelated projects is not an appropriate > way to encourage people interested in "gender gap" to request funds. > -- > Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjo...@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de > D-10243 Berlin · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de > Available for hire in Berlin (early 2015) · http://www.websitedev.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
