Yar, hence the problem. Still, it's nice of individual chapters to provide
grants, although I'm not sure how widely they're advertised.
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
....which, considering most governments, requires at
least 18 months
notice. Most conference scheduling is a 12~14 month window. Paperwork at
its best. But, really, good for Hungary to provide the grant even if it's
too little/too late.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Oliver Keyes <scire.facias(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Yeah, I see your point - it's a timing thing.
It only works if you've got
enough notice in advance, which requires your budget to be set up and the
organisers of Wikimania to be completely on the ball.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Bence Damokos <bdamokos(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Oliver Keyes <scire.facias(a)gmail.com
> >
wrote:
> >
> > > Perhaps in future (for say, Haifa) it would be an idea if any
> > chapter-based
> > > scholarships were put on hold until after the Foundation makes its
> > choices?
> > > That way the systems could mesh, with people who don't quite meet the
> > > Foundation requirements/do but oh dear, we've already used up all our
> > > scholarships being forwarded to the chapter for its decision.
> > >
> >
> > Just a quick note on scholarships and chapters:
> > Wikimedia Hungary applied for a government grant to send people to
> > Wikimania
> > and we have just today received the news that we have won about €850,
> which
> > would have covered the costs of about 5 people (originally we asked for
> > €1160). With this unfortunate timing there were only 4 people from
> Hungary
> > (2 and a half of them got funding from the WMF, their employer and the
> > organisers) so we can't really utilize this grant.
> >
> > There are some lessons in it for us (we could shoulder some of the
costs
anticipating a successful grant application and accepting the risk
associated with not being successful or being less successful than
planned
> for).
> It also helps a little that the Haifa Wikimania will be in August,
which
> gives us an extra month and a chance to get
at least the results – if
not
the grant
money itself – before the conference.
For a successful grant application and in order to induce more
participants
> to go it is also helpful if cost and schedule information are available
> early on (a budget has to be submitted for the grant, people need to
plan
> their summer accordingly and a schedule
helps convince people that they
> should go to Wikimania for the program as well – not only the nice
other
people
they can meet – and it helps in drafting the grant).
Best regards,
Bence Damokos
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