User:Sj/Design chats/Charter/Examples

A list of global decisions waiting to be made in 2024. Even an aggressive timeline for standing up a Global Council would not form in time to make decisions on these points within the year; we should plan to implement decisions through existing processes; lessons from the experience can be used to inform future global governance work.

DRAFT -- just tossing out ideas so far from conversation

from the ED open letter on grantmaking :

1. WMF and affiliates / hubs commit to work together to forecast budgets for all affiliates for the next 3 years.
2. Engage in participatory budgeting w/ affiliates in a region when setting the regional grant pool size
3. Offer multi-year grants to affiliates with staff / space costs.
4. Commit to providing more advance notice for changes in funding programs

   resolving other conflict with WMF:

5. Mediate banner-fundraising discussion: support capacity-building for fundraising competency, direct donor relations

   technical rollouts and resolution:

6. Set up a grant pool for technical grants.
7. Mediate and provide better resolution for the open loop around Commons development. (resolve open tasks more conclusively, delegate or assign or fund development)
8. Mediate and provide better resolution for the open loop around Graphs.
9. Mediate and provide clearer plans for Wikidata scaling and migration.
10. Mediate: Event Center rollout

    other experiments waiting to happen:

11. Let communities use A/B test framework for non-fundraising banners (for editing & other campaigns)

    other RFCs (movement conflict):

12. dormant language projects that linger on as zombies: do we have something closer to an "un-incubator" with a lower bar for shuttering a project than the current LangCom-responding-to-RfC process?
13. ...