good idea.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Alex Wafula <xelawafs(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Looks like someone read my mind. Guess my question is
answered. Thanks
Asaf!
Alex.
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Indeed, a start-up grant is the way to go. It will take some time
(weeks), and would be a lot easier (for you) once you are a registered NGO
with a Wikimedia Kenya bank account, but we can certainly give you some
interim funding to support travel costs etc.
What we need, to do this, would be a volunteer to undertake the role of
interim treasurer. This means the responsibility of:
1. accepting a wire transfer from the foundation into their personal bank
account
2. undertake to disburse (pay) money to WMKE members before scheduled
trips, or to reimburse them after said trips.
3. Manage and submit a report on the use of funds -- dates, names, purpose,
amounts, receipts (where available -- we realize e.g. matatus don't give
receipts).
If a volunteer interim treasurer can be found, we can easily send you an
advance on a fuller start-up grant very soon. A full start-up grant would
entail a grant request (submitted on Meta), review by our Grant Advisory
Committee, and be based on a detailed _plan_ by WMKE for its intended
activities.
Cheers,
Asaf
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*From:* Alex Wafula <xelawafs(a)yahoo.com>
*To:* "wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org"
<wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*Sent:* Tuesday, September 6, 2011 11:27 PM
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Invitation to Kabarak University
Now that I think of it, I probably read this somewhere or heard it from
someone; the minimum amount for a grant should be USD 500. I should probably
google this...
As for the number of guys to go, 2 - 3 sounds good. Speaker, Abbas, your
knowledge on Wikimedia is pretty good and well, I haven't heard you give a
speech before but I have a gut feeling you can manage :) so what do you say?
I'd love to hear Asaf's thought regarding the grant. This should cost way
below USD 500, more like USD 60 - 70
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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Chris is right. Maybe it's also worth asking: who wants to go?, how many
people are(or should be) going?, and who will speak*?
What I know of is that chapters usually apply for a start-up grant that
helps them off the ground. This start up is aimed at paying the legal fees,
registration fees, conferences, logistics, etc. Another option that chapters
use is the money collected from membership fees is used to cater for such
activities.
Sincerely,
Abbas.
*Asaf and I had an informal chat while he was here and he suggested that we
come up with a Speakers List -- which I think is a very good idea. The
people on this list should be really good at public speaking: have a fair
knowledge of what Wikip|media is; and IMO, are capable of answering
questions from an audience satisfactorily. This list would be the first
turning point whenever we need a speaker to be deployed at a certain event.
Of course, this is just a suggestion -- and is open to refute.
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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:11:30 +0300
From: chriwaustin(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Invitation to Kabarak University
Hi, the opportunity presented is quite interesting and worth exploiting.
However, we have a very short period of time to prepare ourselves before the
due date and I think that we might not have sufficient time to acquire the
requisite grant from the foundation. Therefore, I am suggesting that if
possible (interested parties) we finance ourselves for the trip and then the
foundation can re-embers the spent amount afterwards. Please advice.
Regards,
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