[okfn-br] [Wikimedia Brasil] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Sponsorship/donations to other organizations

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2014-04-17 0:50 GMT-03:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga <tom em okfn.org.br>:

> Discussão interessante sobre a Wikimedia apoiar outras organizações,
> principalmente quando pensamos em sustentabilidade num ecossistema de
> projetos com conteúdos e softwares livres.
>
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> From: Erik Moeller <erik em wikimedia.org>
> Date: 2014-04-15 16:50 GMT-03:00
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Sponsorship/donations to other organizations
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l em lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'd be interested in hearing broader community opinions about the
> extent to which WMF should sponsor non-profits purely to support work
> that Wikimedia benefits from, even if it's not directed towards a
> specific goal established in a grant agreement.
>
> This comes up from time to time. One of the few historic precedents
> I'm aware of is the $5,000 donation that WMF made to FreeNode in 2006
> [1]. But there are of course many other organizations/communities that
> the Wikimedia movement is indebted to.
>
> On the software side, we have Ubuntu Linux (itself highly indebted to
> Debian) / Apache / MariaDB / PHP / Varnish / ElasticSearch / memcached
> / Puppet / OpenStack / various libraries and many other dependencies [2],
> infrastructure tools like ganglia, observium, icinga, etc. Some of
> these projects have nonprofits that accept and seek sponsorship and
> support, some don't.
>
> One could easily expand well beyond the software we depend on
> server-side to client-side open source applications used by our
> community to create content: stuff like Inkscape, GIMP and LibreOffice
> (used for diagrams). And there are other communities we depend on,
> like OpenStreetMap.
>
> So, should we steer clear of this type of sponsorship altogether
> because it's a slippery slope, or should we try to come up with
> evaluation criteria to consider it on a case-by-case basis (e.g. is
> there a trustworthy non-profit that has a track record of
> accomplishment and is in actual need of financial support)?
>
> I could imagine a process with a fixed "giving back" annual budget
> and a community nominations/review workflow. It'd be work to create
> and I don't want to commit to that yet, but I would be interested to
> hear opinions.
>
> MariaDB specifically invited WMF to become a sponsor, and we're
> clearly highly dependent on them. But I don't think it makes sense for
> us to just write checks if there's someone who asks for support and
> there's a justifiable need. However, if there's broad agreement that
> this is something Wikimedia should do more of, then I think it's worth
> developing more consistent sponsorship criteria.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
>
> [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Freenode_Donation
> [2] Cf. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upstream_projects
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> Erik Möller
> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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