On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:46 AM, svetlana <svetl...@fastmail.com.au> wrote: > John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > >> i.e. specifically asking >> previously highly productive volunteers who have stopped contributing >> whether they feel the increase in funds has not resulted in their work >> being adequately supported? > > Thanks for your great wording, John. > > I belong to this category (somewhat). I stopped contributing because I felt > that my work is not adequately supported. I felt the need to develop some > software. I have rather limited free time however, and I've been in the "not > highly productive on-wiki" phase for over 3 years now. > > Incidentally, one of the entities that doesn't adequately support my work is > my local chapter. It had been extremely hostile toward Wikimedia movement and > after learning how it works I had no motivation to continue working with > Wikimedia projects. How poorly the Wikimedia Foundation itself works wasn't > the biggest obstacle (I found it mildly approachable and was (and am!) a tiny > bit happy with it).
Have you looked into the funding situation of your local chapter? Does it have large cash reserves and large predicable revenue flows? -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
