On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps there should be a new Budget Committee of the board, with a similar > composition to the Audit Committee in that the membership would include > some WMF board members and some community members. The Budget Committee > could do FDC-like reviews of WMF's Annual Plan proposals each year. >
It is an idea worth considering, but setting up yet another committee gives me goosebumps... > > I personally would prefer to avoid the "core" and "non-core" division of > the WMF budget, since I feel that the whole budget and the performance of > the whole organization should be reviewed at least annually. The Budget > Committee could look at the big picture in more depth than the Board as a > whole and the FDC would have the time to do. > I understand this view. My concerns are related to scale (the most common FDC applicant has a budget 1000 smaller than the WMF), FDC's competence to review such budgets with the same professionalism in a highly limited time, and also mixing the cashflows (after all, the FDC's allocation is also part of WMF's budget), but these issues can probably be addressed somehow. In general, I strongly believe that the WMF should lead by example - it will be much easier for other organizations to prepare strategy, goals, budgets, plans, etc., if they have a clear good example set by the WMF. Dariusz _______________________________________________ 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>
