Hi All, 

I sense the budget is little beyond the line. I understand the tentative events planned will mean an aggressive growth plan, but do we have the resources to handle it? 
More so, can someone explain the status of our FCRA and how exactly is the fund routed into our account? An amount of this magnitude will need a reflection of our previous spend/ failing which we will attract unnecessary scrutiny. This will mean we will need to have full-time support staff - additional expense. For Wikimania, I support and wish to see a transparent call for interests and a due process for selection of travel/scholarship awards: more Indian representation at Wikimania is worthy and called for. For a national conference/4 regional conferences - I understand it will be an overstretch, it is best to have a single conference, through rotation in different cities every year to ensure good participation in the long run. Most of the attendees are volunteers, 5 conferences in total is a bit heavy on schedule. 

- Abhijith Jayanthi
 


From: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur@gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

There is a very serious amount of money being spent on bureaucratic necessities & indeed very little on community activities.

For example, why do 6 people need to go for Wikimania & Chapters conference?

You have asked for money for 3 regional & 1 national conference. Does anyone actually believe that the Chapter has the wherewithal to organise/conduct 4 conferences in a year? Add to that x number of academies & one devcamp. Plus a whopping Rs 6 lakhs for Wiki Loves India/Monuments.

There are also a huge grey areas - Event Participation, Unspecified general events.

The amt 150,000 $ is not at all small. This is an extravagant budget and needs pruning down in the issues mentioned above & more allocation to activities & communities. My suggestion is to keep it much smaller but doable. Such huge amts demanded without any clear cut idea of whats to happen will only lead to non-utilisation at best & misuse at worst. Dont bite off more than you can chew!




On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Ravishankar <ravidreams@gmail.com> wrote:
Karthik,

Except for allocation for Innovative projects, GLAM acdtivities and Digitisation (Budget items 3.5.1, 3.5.4, 3.5.5), I don't see any other budget item that directly sustains any measurable impact on the growth of language communities. Even this fund allocation will prove miniscule when distributed for all the language communities.

I strongly recommend to extend the budget proposal to make use of the full $200,000 that you proposed in your letter of intent and allocate a good budget for language communities and special interest groups.


Thanks,

Ravi

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