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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 July 2010 10:00,
Noein<pronoein(a)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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