Dear Wikimedians,
On behalf of the Community Resources Team, I want to share some updates
regarding the Regional Grant Committees.
We have received many great applications from Wikimedians across the globe
and are excited to move to the next steps in the process.
We have extended the deadline to apply for regional committees till 12
July 2021. As we have received a number of requests for more time to send
in applications.
The Community Resources team will be organising the first round of
orientation and training meetings for Regional Grants Committee members
during mid July 2021. Based on the current size and composition of the
committees and input of the committee members we will invite some
additional members to complement the existing skills and fill in the
missing expertise.
Please apply and encourage Wikimedians from your communities to apply to
the Regional Grant Committees.
We hope to see you during the office hours being organised across the
regions. Timing and other details regarding the office hours can be found
here [1].
Regards,
Tanveer Hasan
[1].
ಬುಧ, ಮೇ 26, 2021 ರಂದು 03:18 ಪೂರ್ವಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Florence Devouard <
fdevouard(a)gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:
Hello Tanveer
Thank you for those answers.
Some questions have been moved to meta as suggested, but have not
received any answer yet. Can you please have a look ?
Thanks
Florence
Le 21/05/2021 à 19:12, Tanveer Hasan a écrit :
Hi Florence,
I wanted to bring to your attention that the CR team has responded to
your questions on the discussion page of the Community Resources/Grants
Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021>.
We are doing this (responding on discussion page) because of the importance
of the questions that you have raised and hope that the questions and
responses would be of help to other community members as well. We request
community members to post their questions directly on the discussion page.
Regards,
P.S: CR team is going to be copy pasting all the questions raised here on
the mailing list on the discussion page of the Grants Strategy Relaunch for
the sake of continuity and having the option to translate questions and
responses in multiple languages for the benefit of other community members.
Please allow us a little time to respond to the questions that have
already been raised in this email thread.
ಶುಕ್ರ, ಮೇ 21, 2021 ರಂದು 06:03 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Florence Devouard <
fdevouard(a)gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:
Hello Julia
I apology if I missed a step at some point.
In this application, I read that
"All the current grant committees (both active and inactive) will cease
to function with the implementation of the new grants strategy of the
Community Resources Team effective from 1 July 2021. We strongly encourage
current and former committee members to apply to be part of the regional
committees."
So... is it to understand that absolutely ALL grants provided by the
Wikimedia Foundation will go through those yet uncreated committees ?
Does that mean all current recipients of APG grants will have to address
their annual request to those yet unknown teams in the future ? (september
in some cases)
To whom will grants requests have to be addressed to for those groups
who are not related to a specific region ? Do they have to pick up a region
of their choice and consider themselves attached to it, or will they be
appointed a region by default ?
Sorry if the questions seem to be unrelated to your call but...
1) I am trying to understand and measure how much unstable our current
situation is as grantees so that we can anticipate...
2) I am trying to evaluate the responsibilities that will be on the
shoulders of those new regional committee members
Best
Florence
Le 21/05/2021 à 08:06, Julia Brungs a écrit :
Dear all,
We hope this email finds you well and safe. The COVID 19 situation
continues to affect many of us across the globe and our thoughts are with
everyone affected. We are also aware that there are several processes
currently in progress that demand volunteer time and we do not want to add
more work to anyone's plate.
We do want to draw your attention to our new Regional Committees for
Grants though as they are an opportunity for you to have an active say in
the future of our Movement!
📣 So today, we invite you to join our new Regional Committees for
Grants! 📣
We encourage Wikimedians and Free Knowledge advocates to be part of the
new Regional Committees that the WMF Community Resources team is setting up
as part of the grants strategy relaunch [1]. You will be a key strategic
thought partner to help understand the complexities of any region, provide
knowledge and expertise to applicants, to support successful movement
activities, and make funding decisions for grant applications in the region.
👉Find out more on meta [2].
Regional Committees will be established for the following regions:
- Middle East and Africa
- SAARC [3] region (Includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,
the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
- East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) region
- Latin America (LATAM) and The Caribbean
- United States and Canada
- Northern and Western Europe
- Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
👉All details about the Committees and how to apply can be found on meta
[4]. Applications have to be submitted by *June 4, 2021*!
If you have any questions or comments, please use the meta discussion
page [5].
Please do share this announcement widely with your Network.
Best wishes,
Julia on behalf of the Community Resources Team
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunc…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunc…
[3]
https://www.saarc-sec.org/index.php/about-saarc/about-saarc
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunc…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Re…
--
*Julia Brungs*
Senior Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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