If wishes were fishes and all that. Still, it's July now; could budgets not get approved before January?
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.comwrote:
On 7/21/10 1:37 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
The attendance of French Wikipedians was certainly high; I travelled
through
to Gdansk with five or six (the "Why France/Britain sucks" conversations" were amusing). I think it's an excellent idea for individual chapters to distribute scholarships, but yes, there is a time element involved. I
guess
it isn't even necessarily needed for the Chapter scholarships to be
issued
afterwards; merely at a different time. Maybe before would work? That way you'd avoid the problem of not distributing all of it.
It would also help if budget was approved at the beginning of the year so that it would be "visible" as early as January that money is left aside for such a use later in the year (it could also be mentionned during general assembly for example).
Alas...
Well, every year brings new improvements ;)
Ant
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner< christophe.henner@gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noeinpronoein@gmail.com wrote:
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On 21/07/2010 01:57, Florence Devouard wrote:
This decision was approved on the 24th of may and was advertised in various (french speaking) venues. The scholarship only proposed two different types of packages: 250 euros or 500 euros. There was no requirement of nationality or location, though we would probably have focused on French participants. A commission was
receiving
the scholarship requests and approving them. Scholars had two main obligations :
- actually being at the conference :)
- report after the conference
In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed, which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants had never been as high in a Wikimania.
Out of curiosity, would contacting the french-speaking registered users of en. and fr. wikipedia have been a good advertisement strategy?
We advertised it on the french Wikipedia of course, and on every french wikimedia project iirc. As long as on our blog and through social media.
Christophe
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