> > 23, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > on February 3, the Wikimedia Foundation senior staff gave a > > presentation to the Board of Trustees as part of its Board meeting in > > San Francisco, recapping the fiscal year so far (our year begins July > > 1) and looking ahead. The slide deck is now available here: > > > > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Mid-Year_Review_February_2012.pdf > > >
Thanks for this - very interesting :-) For me, the most reassuring part is at the end. (It feels a bit odd highlighting this, given the amount of cool stuff in the report, but I suppose it's cool stuff I already knew about). I am very glad to hear that these issues are on peoples' minds and I think identifying them is a really helpful step. Everybody at all levels of the WMF needs to stop spending social & political capital accidentally, or on stuff that doesn't matter; ● We need to stop surprising the community: we need to acknowledge that time works differently for volunteers, and they need lots of advance notice for everything. Overtransparency has never harmed us, but lack of transparency has; ● Internally in the organization we need to shift from the assumption that our scarcest resource is money, to the acknowledgement that it's time. We need to get better at conserving energy, focusing and saying no; _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
