Béria Lima wrote: > WMF *can't *ask money back from Chapters. By the agreement, Chapters who > participate in last year Fundraising need to give 50% of everything they > raised to WMF, but they are not forced to do anything more. And WMF can't > ask for more than that because there are 2 different organizations.
I'm sorry, I don't follow. It's my understanding that some of these chapters received tens of thousands of dollars. In some cases, as noted by the Board, this far exceeded the chapter's needs. If that's the case, I'm not sure why it would be out-of-the-question to ask for some of the money back. There might be reasons that the chapters don't want to or aren't required to, but I don't see any reason why the Wikimedia Foundation couldn't ask. Can you clarify? (And to all those chapter-related people and Wikimedia Foundation staff currently discussing this on internal-l, could you please try to honor the transparency and accountability that Wikimedia was founded upon and discuss this on the public list?) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l