>... it's probably more effective to make your point directly.... Any volunteer organization with a several year history of declining volunteer participation should refocus its external advocacy efforts from actions which can benefit no more than a small percentage of volunteers to those that will likely benefit vastly larger numbers of volunteers who might otherwise not have the time or inclination to contribute.
> Nobody seems to support it. Those who have expressed preferences at http://www.allourideas.org/wmfcsdraft so far have not produced particularly radical priorities, which are currently as follows, from http://www.allourideas.org/wmfcsdraft/results Open educational resources Open access scientific research Broadband internet access Copyright on government works Infrastructure construction and maintenance College subsidy with income-based repayment terms Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols without reservation Increased data center hardware power efficiency Telecommuting Increase education spending, >The Convention on the Rights of the Child is a good and important > thing, and ... the two nations which have somehow neglected to > ratify it should certainly be strongly encouraged to do so... Most of its central portions regarding education and livelihood remain unratified for the majority of the population because of treaty reservations nullifying vast swaths of the text. > but I would strongly oppose WMF being the vehicle for such > domestic political campaigning Should volunteers decide this question collectively, or is the unsustainable status quo more important to preserve than representation of volunteer preferences? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
