Hi Alex,
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.
Sorry, but that is not workable. We definitely should not recommend to
submit requests in early July, that is for a big organisation with much
activities and active partners way too late.
Also the 2014 situation was worse: it should be possible to have a last
moment grant request (for unforeseen circumstances), but that is far from
handy to recommend such for all national teams!
And I am sorry to say, but closing the grant requests for good requests is
insane. The situation will be that instead of coming with a good and well
defined plan, people have to rush and will come with less well set up
project plans or are too late to be in time!
We do believe that this is a positive campaign
It is a negative campaign. Not thought through well, and with problems. It
is at such fine to have more attention to a strategic priority, but this
works counter productive for other good projects.
Also this is a negative campaign, as good projects are not taken seriously
this way.
I thought the grantmaking was intented to support the community
(mission-allied people and organisations), apparently that basic idea has
disappeared...
All folks with grants currently in draft stage have
been contacted
But all folks with grants in draft stage elsewhere, planning to submit in
February or March, aren't aware!
Yes, we have multiple project plans to submit in February...
This is really disappointing.
Romaine
2014-12-30 20:33 GMT+01:00 Alex Wang <awang(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
> Hi Lodewijk,
>
> If the international team (whomever they may be) cannot submit the
> request before February 1st and need funds before April 30th, I am happy to
> talk about a solution. I am also happy to review a draft grant request at
> any time in order to make the process of review and discussion by the Grant
> Advisory Committee more efficient.
>
> We do believe that this is a positive campaign, addressing a strategic
> priority, that demands more time and focus from the grants team. We
> honestly cannot provide this focus in the stream of our normal grantmaking
> workflow. All folks with grants currently in draft stage have been
> contacted, as well as grantees whose current annual grants are coming to an
> end.
>
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.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> it is indeed the case that the 2013 team started in May only. One of the
>> lessons was however, that this was way too late and that it should ideally
>> be started in December.
>>
>> I'm sorry to hear that the grant system is being used in this way, and
>> that this will only be announced two weeks before the period starts. I
>> would be much more in favor of a /positive/ campaign to support requests of
>> a certain type rather than to a negative campaign like this, which
>> discourages everything besides that type.
>>
>> In either way, perhaps we learn this in time to make an effort to submit
>> the grant request before February 1, so that we stay ahead of this and the
>> damage is limited to all the national requests that have to be made.
>>
>> Best,
>> Lodewijk
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Alex Wang <awang(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Yes, we are in the planning stages of an Inspire Grants campaign that we
>>> will be announcing more broadly the week of January 12th. Please stay tuned
>>> for the details.
>>>
>>> In short, Inspire is a global campaign to proactively source and support
>>> new projects aimed at addressing a specific strategic topic. Our first
>>> campaign will focus on addressing the gender gap:
>>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gen….
>>>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign>
>>>
>>> In order to focus, we will take a short break from the regular funding
>>> routines in both Project and Event Grants (PEG) and Individual Engagement
>>> Grants (IEG). We are dedicating round 1 of IEG funding and 3 months of PEG
>>> funding to the campaign. From February 1-April 30, PEG will only accept
>>> proposals as part of the gender gap campaign, with the exception for urgent
>>> requests. And IEG's first round of the year will be devoted to this
>>> experiment.
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't anticipate this having a large impact on 2015 WLM grant
>>> planning. The 2013 international team started on their proposal at the end
>>> of May, leaving plenty of time for discussion and approval. However, if you
>>> feel this will be a challenge, please let me know and I am happy to
>>> discuss.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alex Wang
>>> Program Officer
>>> Project & Event Grants
>>> Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
>>> +1 415-839-6885
>>> Skype: alexvwang
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, exactly.
>>>>
>>>> It's a plan, it's not a definitive plan.
>>>>
>>>> It has been communicated to the committees as general plan to focus
>>>> some period of the year to some specific areas in order to produce more
>>>> impact.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Lodewijk
<lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Ilario,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying. Are you
suggesting
>>>>> that for three months long, nobody can get a grant from the
Wikimedia
>>>>> Foundation if it is not directly related to the gender gap? This
would be
>>>>> very surprising to me, and inconsistent with communications that I am
aware
>>>>> of... It would be quite disruptive of the process as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nonetheless I do think that any project like Wiki Loves Monuments
that
>>>>> involves a general audience, is in part a solution to the
bias-problems
>>>>> such as the gender gap. But it would be counterintuitive to position
it as
>>>>> such.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lodewijk
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Ilario Valdelli
<valdelli(a)gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> For your record, there is the plan to reserve the grants of the
first
>>>>>> quarter of 2015 for project for gender gap. It's an idea not
official yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I agree that the best is to draft the budget because the
>>>>>> submission probably may be conditioned by this decision and
delayed to the
>>>>>> middle of 2015.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards and happy new year (at least for those using the
>>>>>> Gregorian calendar).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Lodewijk <
>>>>>> lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Yan,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually, the grant for next year should already be drafted
by now
>>>>>>> :) I don't want to hurry people too much, but I'm
afraid it would be unwise
>>>>>>> to wait with finding the team for next year...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lodewijk
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Ynhockey
<ynhockey(a)gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can we wait for this year's competition to end before
agreeing on
>>>>>>>> next year's team? There are actually still quite a
few things to do,
>>>>>>>> including regarding the grant.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> —Yan (Ynhockey).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Saqib Qayyum <
>>>>>>>> saqib.qayyum(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I can help too .. :P
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>>>> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:17:10 +0530
>>>>>>>>> From: karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in
>>>>>>>>> To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>>>>>> Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers -
WLM
>>>>>>>>> International Team
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We shall need a good international team to have
another successful
>>>>>>>>> version of Wiki Loves Monuments after 2014. The team
should comprise of
>>>>>>>>> experience volunteers who have conducted WLM or any
such event in their
>>>>>>>>> country.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There are numerous tasks and first task will be to
hunt and find
>>>>>>>>> our countries who shall be willing to organise Wiki
Loves Monuments again.
>>>>>>>>> To brief, the International Team is more of
coordinating with all
>>>>>>>>> participating countries and without proper
coordination, there will be no
>>>>>>>>> international competition for WLM 2015.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Been in the international team is also more of
applying for grant,
>>>>>>>>> documenting, following up and keeping track of status
of all participating
>>>>>>>>> countries. Time to be spent may vary according to the
skill of team
>>>>>>>>> members; more the skills and people, lesser the
burden; however you can
>>>>>>>>> assume 10 hours a week during the contest (just
horrifying).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Would you be interested to be part of international
team for WLM
>>>>>>>>> 2015, please send me a brief introduction of yourself
and also a note on
>>>>>>>>> how you would benefit the international team. Please
send the same by 6th
>>>>>>>>> of Jan.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards from Mumbai,
>>>>>>>>> Karthik Nadar.
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Ilario Valdelli
>>>>>> Wikimedia CH
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>>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> Wikimedia CH
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>>>>
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>>>
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>
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