Hi John,
sounds great, and I'd be happy to brainstorm with you. I guess most of the
writing is something a Swedish native speaker will have to do though, but
this kind of stuff I'd be happy to assist where possible.
Best,
Lodewijk
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:39 PM, John Andersson <john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se>
wrote:
Hi,
I would be happy to look into the possibility of finding external funding
for the International contest (perhaps based on the PEG application from
2013
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_international_team/2013_coordination>?).
There are a few Swedish funds that I know of that might be interested in
supporting the international part of WLM - after all it is pretty awesome.
If you think that I should pursue this I would of course be grateful for
any and all help with drafting the content. Even though these are Swedish
foundations some of the staff costs might still be possible to be moved to
WMNL or other chapters that have been involved in the international part
previously (I think that would be very beneficial because of their
expertise) - but I would have to look into if the funds have any rules
preventing that. I am sure that it could be solved somehow.
The funds I have in mind have a pretty fast process - and we could
probably have a preliminary answer from them within a couple of months or
so. Please let me know if you would like me to get cracking at it.
Best,
John
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Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 10:09:03 +0100
From: romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com
To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers - WLM
International Team
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
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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
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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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