Hello everyone!

We would like to announce the dates for our next two upcoming rounds for our Wikimedia Foundation conference grants program.

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If you would like to apply for funding to hold an event between July - December 2021 your application deadline is: February 8, 2021 -

If you would like to apply for funding to hold an event between January - June 2022 your application deadline is: September 27, 2021

The majority of events in 2021 will likely be mostly or fully remote events unless anything major changes in our COVID-19 risk assessment protocol https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Risk_assessment_during_COVID-19. Following this protocol, some local events are possible in regions with low COVID risk.

So far we have gained a lot of experience organizing remote events and working alongside remote event organizers and are happy to meet and chat about options and ideas for your community before you apply. We have created some remote event guidelines here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Remote_Event_Guidelines. You can also read about some community efforts at Wikiproject: remote event participation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation.

We are happy to announce that we have approved two events for the first half of 2021:

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Arctic Knot: A Wikimedia Languages conference https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMNO/Arctic_Knot:_A_Wikimedia_Languages_conference organized by Wikimedia Norge -

WP20 Aniversario https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMES/WP20Aniversario organized by Wikimedia España -

We are in final discussions with two other organizing groups for possible events during this time frame and will update our meta page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Browse_applications if and when they are approved.

Finally, we are also looking for any community members with event organizing experience from Asia or South America who might be interested in joining our conference grants committee https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference_Grants/Committee as we currently don’t have representation from those regions. Once you read more about our committee, you can apply on meta directly or email us back and ask any questions you have.

Thank you & happy end of the year!

Rachel Farrand & Chen Almog