Connectivity for starters, and owning devices that are capable of enabling a good summit experience. Not all volunteers are privileged to contribute to a virtual event in a comfortable way. The Internet can be expensive for video calls for many countries / regions in Africa and Asia. ᐧ On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 8:58 PM Esteban Zarate <jezarate(a)gmail.com> wrote:

It's worth looking at the Wikicite e-scholarship model: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/e-scholarship Thanks, Mike On 11/5/21 20:49:21, Winnie Kabinte wrote: > Thanks for your input Mohamed, you're right. Those are actually some of > the areas the scholarship should help facilitate. > > We shall update you more on this soon enough. > > > > On Tue, 11 May 2021, 22:28 Mohamed ElGohary, &lt;ircpresident(a)gmail.com > <mailto:ircpresident@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Connectivity for starters, and owning devices that are capable of > enabling a good summit experience. Not all volunteers are privileged > to contribute to a virtual event in a comfortable way. The Internet > can be expensive for video calls for many countries / regions in > Africa and Asia. > ᐧ > > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 8:58 PM Esteban Zarate &lt;jezarate(a)gmail.com > <mailto:jezarate@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I don't understand what is the purpose of the scholarship this > year, there isn't to travel and no physical venue to host > Wikimania, what is the purpose of the scholarship? > > El mar, 11 de may. de 2021 a la(s) 15:50, Winnie Kabinte > (kabinte(a)gmail.com <mailto:kabinte@gmail.com>) escribió: > > Dear Wikimedia Community Members, > > > We’re so excited to share some updates with you around > Wikimania 2021! We’ve been hard at work, getting things > running and putting things in place and realized we have so > much we’d like to share with you. Thank you for your > flexibility and understanding, as we navigate through this > rapidly moving ship. > > > 1. > > Wikimania 2021 will be happening! We’ve already > announced the dates (August 13-17) but wanted to remind > you - in case you had any doubts - that the first-ever > virtual Wikimania will be happening - and we want you > there! [1] > > > 2. > > We noticed that all though we’ve been going full speed > on the back end at organizing Wikimania 2021, we haven’t > updated you as frequently as we would like… So, we will > be sending out a weekly update email to all of you on > Mondays - until the event goes live. Which in case you > were wondering, is in 3 months and 2 days! (Yes, that soon!) > > > 3. > > We will be having a Scholarship Program this year as > well! We’d like to remove most barriers of participation > for those who would otherwise not be able to join. More > information will be coming soon around Scholarships - so > stay tuned! > > > 4. > > This year's theme is: Celebrate 20 years of Wikipedia > and the humans who make it happen. 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The COT has identified 3 broad areas for scholarship support, Connectivity, soft support, and community support. Like the Wikicite link that Mike mentioned: we want to make it as light on bureaucracy as possible. We want to tailor it to the needs of as many people as possible with a priority for engaging people who haven't experienced wikimania. Please keep putting out ideas as to the support that will benefit people we'll try to include as many options as possible On Wed, 12 May 2021 at 07:45, Florence Devouard &lt;fdevouard(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- Gnangarra *Wikimania 2021* *Celebrating 20 years of Wikipedia* *acknowledging our Past, Present, and Future* our virtual global conference *13–17 August, 2021* hosted by Every community Wikimania: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gnangarra Noongarpedia: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nys/Main_Page My print shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Gnangarra/shop?asc=u

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 9:11 AM Ted Chien &lt;htchien(a)wikimedia.tw&gt; wrote: I fully agree, but also not just care for babies and kids, but also elderly and sick which are much more in danger in a pandemic.