On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:57 AM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Tilman Bayer wrote: >>Quarterly review minutes and/or slides of the following teams have >>been posted in recent days: >> >>Multimedia: >>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarte >>rly_reviews/Multimedia/January_2015 >> >>Legal & Community Advocacy: >>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LCA_Q2_Slides.pdf (abridged >>slides only) >> >>Fundraising and Fundraising Tech: >>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarte >>rly_reviews/Fundraising/January_2015 >> >>Communications: >>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Communications_WMF_Quarterly_Revie >>w,_Q2_2014-15.pdf >>(slides only, as a report - no actual meeting took place) > > Hi. > > I'm trying to understand why certain groups seem to have had a formal > quarterly review (with minutes on a corresponding Meta-Wiki page) and why > others seem to have bypassed this process. Why wasn't there a review for > two of the four groups mentioned (Communications and Legal & Community > Advocacy)? Publishing slides is better than nothing, I suppose, but it > seems strange to not hold a formal quarterly review for these two teams. > > MZMcBride >
This was actually the first time that groups outside Engineering and Grantmaking took part in the quarterly review process. While indeed almost every team or department was conducting quarterly review meetings this time, bear in mind that the process is still being worked on and rethought, e.g. regarding the amount of detail covered in each meeting (corresponding to its length), and what level of involvement from senior management should be required in each case. As recorded on the overview page, Legal & Community Advocacy held in fact a quarterly review meeting on January 30, it's just that we decided not to publish minutes because much of the discussion was confidential and sensitive - perhaps unsurprisingly, considering the department's work area. Because the Communications department is still in build-up mode, there was a sense that a formal quarterly review meeting did not yet make sense for them this time. But the team decided to nevertheless produce a full slide deck that, I think, contains a lot of relevant information about its Q2 work. -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ 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>
