Anna
Thank you for that and for writing it on a Sunday. Unfortunately I missed
it originally in the two dozen messages in this thread. You mention the
names of individuals outside the US who are helping and that is good to
see. By "consultants" I meant the companies hired to help you, such as
L
Greg and Anna
This is a most interesting response and illustrates very well the value of
transparency. By not explaining clearly to the community what was
happening initially, the Foundation has managed to place itself and the
community at odds, and has managed to spend ten hours of staff time (t
Pine,
A proper response would take the Wikimedia Foundation some time to prepare. As
Anna has tried to indicate, and as evidenced by a number of things, there are
indeed a number of financial oversights.
Regarding costs, as has been previously stated by the Foundation and Board, the
Board app
David Cuenca Tudela,
Looking at the proposed grant you only asked for 36000, you get that, then
you decided that the WMF is being greedy and you now want more money. If
you need 72,000 should not your initial request realized that and adjusted
the requesting amount accordingly? I will also note th
Hola Ivan,
Así es, la idea es que la WMF pague las becas de viaje para la gente que no
se lo puede permitir, y el resto de la conferencia lo pagaría la WMDE.
En este caso la cantidad para la bolsa de viaje me parece demasiada baja
para hacer que este evento (la primera vez que se realiza) funcion
Dariusz,
What is the point of spending the funds frugally if our mission is not
accomplished? Why do we need to compare an event of this magnitude to a
small chapter?
The money is there to be used, not to sit on top of it without knowing what
to do with it. If the WMF doesn't know what to do with
no comprendo!
> Le 28 juin 2017 à 20:09, Ivan Martínez a écrit :
>
> Hola David.
>
> Hasta donde entendí está escrito en la subvención solicitada un total de 36
> 000 euros, y el resto iba a ser cubierto por fondos que provienen de WMDE.
> ¿No es así?. Como voluntario del Comité de Subvenciones
Hola David.
Hasta donde entendí está escrito en la subvención solicitada un total de 36
000 euros, y el resto iba a ser cubierto por fondos que provienen de WMDE.
¿No es así?. Como voluntario del Comité de Subvenciones a Conferencias,
quedo pendiente y en consideración de tú comentario.
Saludos,
hi David,
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:52 PM, David Cuenca Tudela
wrote:
> Recently the review for the Wikidata conference grant application has
> started, and I have complained that the funds allocated are insuficient to
> cover the needs of the grants. The requested amount for the grants was
> 3
Hello,
Recently the review for the Wikidata conference grant application has
started, and I have complained that the funds allocated are insuficient to
cover the needs of the grants. The requested amount for the grants was
36,000 EUR, but in my opinion that should be at least 72,000 EUR.
I have t
You're right, it is way too much weight to assign to it. It's a perfectly
reasonable statement that can be read as "The fact that we are under budget
is a sign that our normal fiscal controls are working" so I'm baffled that
it is being interpreted as "We don't care what we spend money on at all a
Dear members of the Wikimedia community,
On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, I write to
confirm that the board has approved [1] the full slate of the FDC’s Round 2
2016-2017 recommendations [2] for the Annual Plan Grants. We also have
taken good note of the FDC recommen
Amir, I will certainly try to respond! I had a rather nice universal
deployment model pre-lua.
On 28 Jun 2017 07:33, "Amir E. Aharoni"
wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> TLDR: If you are an experienced editor on any Wikimedia project in any
> language, please add your ideas here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org
Sure Samir!
How can we start working? ;)
2017-06-27 12:58 GMT-03:00 Samir Elsharbaty :
> That was meant to be sent to Anna offlist. Sorry for sending here. Please
> ignore this message.
>
> Samir Elsharbaty
> Communications|Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Samir Elshar
Pine, Weren't you the person who pushed for months consult and interview
and design when I wanted to make mediawiki colors 5% brighter? How come
deciding on future of Wikimedia movement is too expensive?
Best
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:36 AM Rogol Domedonfors
wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Budget control
Robert,
Budget control is not just accounting. When a process that employs a lot
of staff and contractor time was planned to take some period of time and is
then extended, then yes, that is a reason to ask about control of costs.
Anna alludes to one method of budget control – "We have plenty of m
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