As for the FDC/annual plan grants, that would require for them to be recognised Wikimedia partner orgs in the new affiliation model, right?
Nemo
Unless I am mistaken, it would, yeah. I'm assuming that Anasuya is hoping that they would be able to achieve affcom recognition in their partnership grant funded period of operation so that they could apply for FDC funding going forward.
Thanks for the question, Nemo (and for the response, Kevin). I think this is one of the issues I hope to work out with AffCom and others in the months to come - whether local organisations like CIS (in India) become recognised as Wikimedia partner organisations. My understanding was that the original premise in the affiliation model may have been to consider global organisations as partner organisations in this fashion, but we need to confirm how the model will work now that we have some real life examples. In any case, we'll make sure to figure out the appropriate way to establish the legitimacy and eligibility of orgaisations such as these so that they can apply to the FDC for annual plan funding going forward. Stay tuned. :-)
Anasuya