Overview of strategic plan 2014-2019/General feedback page

Please leave general feedback regarding the Strategic Plan 2014-2019, and this consultation process, on this page.

Community feedback

"Open" is not the same as "free"

By adopting the (complex) OKF definitions and removing the requirement for free access, this proposal weakens the scope of the charity. If the intention is to ensure that our projects preserve knowledge in ways that are both open and free, then we must unambiguously use the word free. --Fæ (talk) 10:04, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Can we keep this discussion in one place please, this page is for general feedback. For discussion of the suggested Vision, Values, and Mission please see here Sjgknight (talk) 10:12, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Where is cost management or monitoring effective and efficient operations?

Plans are characterized by time, resources and deliverables. The language used in Strategic plan 2014-2019 means that outcomes are deliverables and time will be given by annual measurements. However I can see no limit on resources. Without any limit on resources (cost) this leaves operations free to increase costs of running the organization disproportionate to the benefits that the charity delivers.

Considering that the administrative costs or internal costs of running the charity already uses 50% of the donated funds rather than being spend directly on outcomes, it would seen sensible to set resource targets that make the charity more efficient year on year (for example a target of making the charity overall 5% more efficient at delivering end outcomes every year). Looking at Progress on Outcomes I can see nothing that provides the trustees with measure they might need to hold the CEO to account on how effective or efficient the charity is. In most charities targets for being effective and efficient are key performance measures for their senior management. --Fæ (talk) 23:31, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Consultation seems too late in the process

The process for consultation with members and volunteers seems geared to resist change, as the full five year sets of goals and their measures have been proposed before the radically re-written mission and values have been agreed (radical as they have changed from a half screen to 2-screens worth on-wiki and several more screens of new off-wiki definitions). As the strategic plan, goals and measures are supposed to flow from the mission and values, the fact that this is still undergoing change yet the entire structure has been finalized, would seem to make it now resistant to change, as presumably both trustees and employees have invested significant time in it before unpaid non-trustee volunteers or the general membership have had a chance to look at a draft, or take part in any community discussion of priorities and goals for the future of the charity. --Fæ (talk) 23:31, 3 February 2014 (UTC)