Hello again, everyone!
Whoops! Let me try again, this time without the unfinished sentence.
Hello there Andy,
Sure thing.
Rapid Grants will require Wikimedians who travel to non-Wikimedia events to
create a more robust engagement plan. The reason for this is to increase
the likelihood that their participation will have an impact on other
attendees. In TPS, we sometimes funded people who were presenting a talk at
an event like an academic conference. We will no longer fund Wikimedians to
attend non-Wikimedia events to present a talk. Now we ask that applicants
include additional elements in their plan besides presenting a talk, such
as hosting edit-a-thons, offering trainings or meet-ups, and/or arranging
for follow-up activities online after the event.
Occasionally, the TPS program received requests to support international
travel with budgets that were slightly over $2,000 USD. These requests came
in infrequently, but that type of grant request would be impacted by this
change. This change is aligned with our intention to focus on more regional
travel requests, which tend to be more cost-effective than international
travel requests (though this is of course very context specific!).
Yours sincerely,
Katy
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Katy Love <klove(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello there Andy,
Sure thing.
Rapid Grants will require Wikimedians who travel to non-Wikimedia events
to create a more robust engagement plan. The reason for this is to increase
the likelihood that their participation will have an impact on other
attendees. In TPS, we sometimes funded people who were presenting a talk at
an event like an academic conference. We will no longer fund Wikimedians to
attend non-Wikimedia events to present a talk. Now we ask that applicants
include additional elements in their plan besides presenting a talk, such
as hosting edit-a-thons, offering trainings or meet-ups, and/or arranging
for follow-up activities online after the event. Our intention here is
Occasionally, the TPS program received requests to support international
travel with budgets that were slightly over $2,000 USD. These requests came
in infrequently, but that type of grant request would be impacted by this
change. This change is aligned with our intention to focus on more regional
travel requests, which tend to be more cost-effective than international
travel requests (though this is of course very context specific!).
Take good care,
Katy
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:
On 12 March 2018 at 18:08, Katy Love
<klove(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Some background: TPS was created in 2011 as a
movement outreach
program. It
reimburses travel expenses for Wikimedian
volunteers who present about
Wikimedia at non-Wikimedia events. Its closure comes as a consequence of
the grants restructure following our 2015 Reimagining Grants
consultation.
*We will continue to* *support travel requests as
part of our other
grant
programs*, as follows:
For the sake of clarity, please could you state what types of
applications (if any) will no longer be supported, which would have
been supported previously?
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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