Hi all,
The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) Committee is seeking new members for its final round (before IEG transitions into the Project Grants program https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Implementation#Outcomes_summary ).
We are aiming to finalize committee membership by April 1st, and ask interested candidates to submit their names by March 25th here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee#ieg-candidates. More details below!
*About the committee*
We are a consensus-based volunteer committee with members who come from over 15 different wikis and collectively speak over 10 languages. We review grant applications in four categories: Research, Tools, Online Community Organizing, and Offline Outreach and Partnerships.
This round will also follow directly on the heels of the second Inspire Campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, currently underway and focused on 'Content Curation and Review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/FAQ' so we expect that to be a prominent theme in the proposals this round.
For more info about IEG, the committee, timelines, and tasks, visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG.
*Committee membership criteria*
We look for the following qualities and qualifications in committee members:
Mandatory
- Experience with the Wikimedia movement and at least one Wikimedia project https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects. - Experience with some aspect of Wikimedia programmatic or project-based work, e.g. editor engagement, WikiProjects or other on-wiki organizing processes, outreach, events, partnerships, research, education, gadget or bot-building, etc. - Ability to edit basic wiki-markup (grant proposal discussions are largely conducted on meta-wiki). - Reasonable facility with English, for reviewing and discussing grant proposals. - In good community- and legal- standing (not currently blocked or banned, involved in allegations of unethical financial behavior, etc). - Availability to actively engage in the selection process during the published schedule for that round (time commitment is about 3 hours per week, plus 1 extra day for scoring).
Preferable
- Experience leading, coordinating, or managing projects with an intended on-wiki or online impact. - Experience handling externally provided money and working within budgets, preferably in a non-profit context. - Experience applying for grants or working in grants programs (in the Wikimedia, academic, or wider non-profit world). - Ability to read and write in multiple languages.
Acceptable
- Members may apply for an Individual Engagement Grant themselves, but they will recuse themselves from reviewing proposals in the same category as their own during that round. - Membership does not conflict with membership in other Wikimedia committees, including the Grant Advisory Committee https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee or the Wikimania Scholarships Committee.