On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Butch Bustria butch@wikimedia.org.ph wrote:
Though personally, I can rate our chapter as your little brother chapter and your chapter is our big sister and the 2011-2012 chapters are toddlers
I would suggest that people stop rating :D
FYI in 2007 when we haven't become a chapter yet or I'm not even sure I like to pursue one, *I* came to Taipei to learn about Wikimedia Taiwan via Wikimania and hope that they will take a role as our guidance, where we can learn from them. *to be honest I am still hoping now*
We hope that we can do little steps like communicating bi-chapters like my own initiative to fly to Hong Kong and have web conferences.
*grin* We're not flying anyone until we understand what the need are and whether it suit to the training that we provided. Too expensive. Without a clear RoI (return of investment) it jeopardizing the *future* grant request even WMID track record. We *of course* will avoid that at all cost.
I also hope that financial constraints and limited person time wont be a hindrance to our relations
Apsara only take off if we receive the grant. Which we haven't even asked for yet. Therefore it eliminates financial constraint, the grant will bore the expenses. However the grant will not bore the limited person time, since we realize it exist. If you have limited time, and will not be able to conduct project after the training (will be decided during assessment per communication between potential trainer/ trainee during identification of whether or not one need training for *three days* for example) - then although the money available, probably one is not the best person attending the training.
We're aiming *the* interested and willing.
Another example is if PH would like to conduct Wiki Loves Monument. By all mean, don't come to Indonesia, we never done that before :D nor interested to provide training for it. You'd probably best invite the Netherlanders - for example. If the Netherlanders are willing to come i.e to Phillipines with their own funding, asks Apsara to funded Bangladeshian or Indian or Korean to fly to Philipine to listen for the workshop and we'll send you the money. *shrug*
That's it.