Chris Keating, 27/10/2011 19:51:
- It's also relatively unusual for a Wikimedia organisation to provide
support to someone else to apply for third-party funding in a competitive tendering process, but in this case the Wikimedia UK board thought it was quite justified in pursuit of our objectives.
Our characteristic of being a (de facto) network of associations in most European countries (and many others) must not be underestimated: it's very useful, for instance, to participate in EU funds. WM-DE is a good example with RENDER. Universities, on the contrary, spend a lot of energies to build international (more or less fake) networks with lots of paper (and signed documents travelling all over the world for months or years) for consortium agreements etc., which usually don't go anywhere.
Nemo