Thanks FDC for your hard work on the recommendations, and It's great to see so many applicants earning full funding this time!
Chris On 20 Nov 2017 5:43 pm, "Bishakha Datta" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) meets twice a year to make > recommendations about how to effectively allocate movement funds to achieve > the Wikimedia movement's mission, vision, and strategy. This is now the > 11th round of allocations made by the FDC, and we met in person from > November 17-20, 2017 in Madrid to deliberate on 9 proposals submitted this > round. Wikimedia Deutschland's annual plan will be reviewed separately. > > > We would like to thank all of the participating organizations for the hard > work they put into this round’s proposals. > > Our recommendations for Round 1 2017-2018 on the annual plan grants to the > Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees have now been posted on Meta.[1] The > Board will review our deliberations and make a decision by December 31, > 2017. > > We received grant requests for approximately USD 2,766,000 this round. > Before we met, committee members reviewed all of the proposals and > documents submitted. We were assisted in this review with input from the > FDC staff assessments which included analysis on impact, finances, and > programs, as well as community comments on the proposals. > > As you may know, there is a formal process to submit complaints or appeals > about these recommendations. Here are the steps for both: > > Any organization that would like to submit an appeal on the FDC’s > recommendation should submit it to the Board representatives to the FDC by > 23:59 UTC on 8 December 2017 in accord with the appeal process outlined in > the FDC Framework [2]. 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, > Nataliia Tymkiv and Dariusz Jemielniak. The appeal should be submitted > on-wiki, and must be submitted by the Board Chair of a funding-seeking > applicant. The Wikimedia Foundation Board will publish its decision on this > and all recommendations by December 31, 2017. > > Anyone can file a complaint about the FDC process [3] with the Ombudsperson > at any time. The complaint should be submitted on wiki, as well. The > Ombudsperson will publicly document the complaint, and investigate as > needed. > > On behalf of the FDC, > > Bishakha Datta > FDC Chair > > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2017-2018_ > Round_1 > > > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/ > Framework_for_the_Creation_and_Initial_Operation_of_the_FDC > > > [3] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Complaints_ > about_the_FDC_process > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
