Only before May? The new grants system is rigged in a way we might have to
move heaven and earth to get approval?
Unless there's a reason I don't know, perhaps it doesn't need to be before
May, but can be applied anytime this year, if only the plan is to do the
event next year.
On 13 Mar 2016 12:41 am, "Florence Devouard" <anthere(a)anthere.org> wrote:
Le 13/03/16 00:40, shola ishola a écrit :
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for my epistles
Dear Asaf,
Thank you for your points and for the links.
Kindly note that you quoted my mail out of context by saying that *I am
being alienated and de motivated because I didn't receive scholarship*.
It's not about "Olaniyan" but about the gross denial of many groups in
Africa, the opportunity of exposure to new knowledge and information that
Wikimania offer to share. Just like you and I know that, Wikimedia is
about community development and no community can develop without an
effective execution of projects. Now tell me, if you chose just 4
applicants in Africa, how do you want other communities that were not
represented to learn from the products/outcomes of the event?. Also, if you
believed that Wikimedia is about free sharing of knowledge and information,
how can communities and individual from the alienated groups share their
project with the larger community of Wikimedians?
I want us to read and digest an extract from Wikimania mailing list on
some of the questions raised on issues relating to the selection of
applicants for wikimania scholarship below:
*"Olatunde raises a significant issue in that call for communities to
participate in the community village is demoralising if communities dont
have the opportunity to attend the event which is suppose to be bringing
everyone together. We have the underlying principle of sharing the sum of
all knowledge, if we dont do it internally then we cant do it successfully
externally. As for the response the process for Wikimania has been changed,
in Mexico last year a decision was taken with many communities unaware and
excluded from the discussion because they didnt have anyone there. With
Wikmania being every 2 years its becomes more significant that all
communities have representatives attend every wikimania otherwise it ends
up isolating communities for 4 years from the whole of the movement. The
scholarship process is also broken and its needs to be discussed it needs
to be reconsidered to allow for the changes” Submitted by Gnangarra. *
It seems some of us are comfortable with our minority role in the
movement… and if we continue this way, I wonder what would be the future of
the movement in the continent.
Great thanks to Isla and Florence and others for their roles on the
continent, by providing direction through the introduction of sustainable
platform for collaboration and sharing of knowledge among the various
communities in Africa. Even with this on hand, we still need a larger forum
where all the communities and volunteers who align with our movement can
come together to express themselves year in year out.
Now that no one knows the fate of Wikiindaba and Wikimania is out of
reach. What next?
Submitted.
Olaniyan Olushola
Director, WUGN
Treasurer, FOSSFA
MD, Olbims Consulting
Phone: +2348154876844
Email: olaniyanshola15(a)gmail.com
Email: olaniyanshola(a)yahoo.com
Email:treasurer@fossfa.net
User page: Olaniyan Olushola
Facebook: Olaniyan Shola
Twitter :Olaniyan73
No one knows the fate of Wikiindaba ???
The fate of WikiIndaba is in your hands. Our hands.
It needs a place. It needs a program. It needs a budget. And it needs a
PEG grant to be asked for before the end of May.
It is quite a bit of work. But that is perfectly feasible.
Flo
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