Hi Marteen,

I understand how difficult and tiring is the grant process and then the reporting. Lodewijk, me and Cristian have gone through this in 2013 and I also believe you had gone through this in 2012 and it killed all of us; or atleast I can talk for myself.

Still, I don't believe if we will need a different team just for grant; maybe what we can do is we can have a little more team members and we can have 4-5 members exclusively focused on grant and reporting and then at other fronts.

Yan,

10 members team will be exactly as I had said earlier; too many cooks will spoil the food. May be we can look at 7 members team. 2013 international team were perfect; yes it was challenging though (again I'm talking for myself; others may have different persoonal opinion).

Regards from Mumbai,
Karthik Nadar.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl> wrote:

Hi Alex,

Alex Wang schreef op 30-12-2014 om 20:33:

Please also note that last year PEG funded 7 WLM grants (+1 to the international team). The earliest request was made in June and the last in mid-September. Next year, we will recommend that national requests come in by early July, and will be communicating this as well as other tips on national WLM grant requests, over the next couple of months.

You're kidding right? That's much too late. The fact that this year the organization was chaotic and everyone was too late doesn't mean it should happen like that every year. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline for a proper timeline . You should encourage teams to have a proper planning so they can achieve excellent results instead of hurried just in time results.

Maarten

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