Thanks, Kerry. Of course, the fact that Australians donate to central doesn't entitle us to funding automatically, and rightly so in my view.
To answer Brian's question, which seems to be further there's-not-enough-time argumentation: "I have difficulty linking the lack of funding with not quickly making these changes. Why can not a committee elected under the current rules get funding from FDC?" Because we are an affiliate urgently in need to something to show them – something that might suggest a little dynamism rather than the sleepy anonymous do-nothing chapter (and committee) that we increasingly seem to be. One-year terms are not a good look if you're trying to show that you've reacted to the critical feedback from the FDC last time. Introducing two-year terms now, not when it's nearly 2015, as you would have it, would send a good signal that we expect to build experience and skills among committee members, who are will to commit for more than 12 months, and have the flexibility to (legally) allocate their executive functions as they believe optimises the chapter's performance. Still nothing from the committee on this. Tony On 27/08/2013, at 12:49 PM, Kerry Raymond wrote: > We’ve had a few reports of donation banners by Australian WP readers at this > unseasonal time of the year, so I made some enquiries and it appears that WMF > is running these banners for anonymous users on a “once off” basis. Many of > you will probably not have seen them yourselves as you are probably normally > logged-in when you use WP. I believe the normal donation banner campaign will > still take place at the end of the year. > > I thought you might like to be aware of these donation banners in case anyone > asks you about it. Note, it is supposed to be a “once off” experience and the > team would like to hear if there is any evidence that individuals are seeing > a lot of these banners. Of course people using multiple computers might see > them “once off” on each computer (not sure there is much that can be done > about that). > > If you’d like to know more about it, please see: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013#July_1.2C_2013_Update > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013#First_two_weeks_of_the_new_fiscal_year.2C_July_15.2C_2013_Update > > > Kerry > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
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