Hi Romaine, probably it's my feeling but a lot of countries apply for a grant for WLM very late (in general during summer).
So it cannot be demotivating for WLM.
I do not understand the impact of the project to assign the first three months of 2015 to a specific topic with the normal period of application for the national teams.
The same international team of 2013 submitted the request in June.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_internationa...
Regards
On 03.01.2015 20:01, Romaine Wiki wrote:
Hi Jane,
Read! https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2014-December/00760...
From February 1-April 30, PEG will only accept proposals as part of the gender gap campaign, with the exception for urgent requests.
This means regular projects will not be accepted. That is effectively shutting the grantmaking down. Of course we will not let WLM to be shut down. But this grantmaking shutting down is very demotivating and discouraging, for many organisers.
This is also counter productive in solving the gender gap problem.
Romaine