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{{WMF elections candidate

| username = Laurentius

| name = Lorenzo Losa

| image = Lorenzo Losa-2012.JPG

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| age = 29

| ___location = Italy

| languages = Italian-N, English-3, Spanish-1, [[w:Python (programming language)|Python]]-3

| wikimedian since = 25 April 2004

| active wikis = [[w:it:Utente:Laurentius|it.wikipedia]], [[User:Laurentius|meta]]

| statement = The FDC is a key part of our movement. It's not only grantmaking; it's ''participatory'' grantmaking. Funds are not the only issue at stake here. It essential to remember our key values, and among them:

* '''transparency'''. Let the plans, activities, and decisions be visible and understandable.

* '''collaboration & participation'''. It's the core of our movement.

* '''empowering the volunteers'''. Our people have amazing ideas. Our organizations are built to translate them in amazing programs.

To fulfill its role, and effectively allocate donors' money, I believe the FDC is facing a few challenges:

* '''understanding the diversity'''. Affiliates have different sizes, contexts, and approaches. That's one of our richnesses.

* '''thinking long term'''. It's not only about the next year: the plans, and the recommendations of the FDC, shape the movement on a longer term.

* '''clarity'''. Being transparent means making information not only available, but also accessible and understandable; being participative means not only allowing people to participate, but also effectively enabling them to do so.

The FDC is more than a technical committee. It makes technical decisions, but in order to support our mission and according to our values. Those values are the reason why we have a committee. The Foundation could have hired nine technicians; but that wouldn't work. It wouldn't be as participative and transparent. It wouldn't be as tied in our movement.

| fdc q1-1 = In nine years in Wikimedia Italia, I've took part / directed a number of programs, ranging from educational programs to partnerships with cultural institutions, organizing conferences and public events, and so on. More recently, I've worked on WMI's strategic plan.

Looking outside Wikimedia, one year ago I co-founded a startup company: business plans are now my daily job, also.

And I'm a mathematician, so if we have to talk about metrics and measurable results, I'm not easily scared :-)

| fdc q1-2 = Regarding my experience in Wikimedia grants, I've been involved in both the requests made by Wikimedia Italy: the PEG for the Wikimedia Conference in 2013 and its first APG request (just now). Only two, because Wikimedia Italy for most of its life has managed (and had the luck) to get enough funds from other sources. This means that I've been exposed to various non-Wikimedia grants; among the ones I leaded, Crescere che avventura (2011-2013), from a private Italian foundation, to teach about Wikipedia in schools, and EAGLE, an ongoing three-million-euros three-years European grant where Wikimedia has a small (yes, we are not getting millions) but important role (by the way, this resulted in the first use of Wikibase outside Wikidata, and I'm quite proud of that).

| fdc q2 = I've been a wikimedian for 11 years (I might be the oldest wikipedian in this election...); I started editing the Italian Wikipedia in 2004, and I've been elected administrator in 2006. In the same year I joined Wikimedia Italia, and I've been in its board from 2011 to 2014; now I'm Coordinator for relations with institutions.

In these years I've seen different parts of our movement, both the online editing, organizing programs, and managing the chapter.

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