Hi Sylvain, no matter what the prize is, there will be people who like it more than others. You are of course right that our target audience is broader than just regular Wikimedians. The idea of the scholarship is that the winner can "present" the winning photo at Wikimania, and of course besides that it is a nice trip to Washington. Advantage is that Washington is relatively speaking just as far for any country in Europe. And similarly expensive. To be clear, we're talking about a full scholarship, including travel, conference fee and stay. Also, if the first prize winner really doesn't like it, he can choose between the offered prizes, the second winner gets second choice etc. It would be really great if we get a few more prizes to choose from so that everybody gets something they really like. Best, Lodewijk 2011/8/22 Sylvain Boissel <sylvain.boissel(a)wikimedia.fr>

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 03:30:19PM +0200, GoEthe.wiki wrote: For non-wikipedians you can see it as a 3 day vacation to washington DC, where you only have to go to the conference once to tell something about the picture. Still a very nice price I would say then. Regards, Andre

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 05:27:53PM +0300, Strainu wrote: That was just my interpretation of 'the idea was to present the winning foto at wikimania'. Regards, Andre

Glad we clarified this :) I'm personally in favor of this prize, as long as we market it as a vacation. However, you should consider that the citizens in some of the participating countries - including Romania - need a visa for entering the US. This might discourage them from participating. Strainu 2011/8/22 Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>rg>:

Hi! In my opinion, a prize that you can't enjoy until almost a year later, it's not a good prize. I'm agree with Strainu too. I think that we would have to do a brainstorming of possible European first prize. Carles 2011/8/22 Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com>