Hello, Wikimedians in Boston!
This Participation Support request from a User who works with the Boston
City Archives is to attend the upcoming Open GLAM Launch in Berkeley:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:BostonCityArchives/US_OpenGLAM…
.
Before making a decision about whether or not to fund the request, we
wanted to gauge the interest of some local Wikimedians in working with the
Boston City Archives. Does anyone have experience working with the
archives, or is anyone interested in getting involved with their work
releasing their digitized images on commons, or does anyone have other
information that might be useful to us as we're considering the request?
By the way, for those of you who may not have heard much about the
Participation Support Program, it is a reimbursement program that funds the
travel costs of contributors who are participating in events such as
meetings and conferences. It doesn't fund participation in
Wikimedia-movement-organized events such as Wikimania or events organized
by local chapters - requests for scholarships to attend those events should
still go through the event organizers (who are welcome to apply for a grant
through the WMF Grants Program:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index).
To learn more about the program and see some examples of successful
requests, please visit
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Supportor write to us at
participation(a)wikimedia.org at any time.
Thank you, and best regards!
Winifred
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Winifred Olliff
Grants Administrator
Wikimedia Foundation