Can I disagree with Andrew's email? This sort of thing's best done
collaboratively, rather than coming from a single person, and that's
what a wiki's best at.
I've just set up a proposals page at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projects/Proposals
Please could people go there to submit ideas, flesh them out and
volunteer for things that look interesting? There's a rough template
on there for how a proposal should probably look, but there's no
formal process involved. If you can't think of anything, then there's
plenty of ideas at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projects/Ideas .
Mike
On 3 Mar 2009, at 21:03, AndrewRT wrote:
On Feb 18, 9:33 am, Michael Peel
<em...(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
Hi all,
The WMF has just announced grants for chapters: "If a chapter has
work it wants to get done in the furtherance of our overall mission
and goals during the fiscal year 2009-2010 (July 1, 2009 -June 30,
2010), but it cannot do it without financial support, the Wikimedia
Foundation is inviting that chapter to ask the Wikimedia Foundation
for funding."
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/WMF_grants
The deadline for this is 30 March. The value of the grant has to be >
500 USD.
Does anyone have any projects in mind that could benefit from such a
grant?
Mike
Unfortunately, the Board is pretty busy at the moment organising the
AGM and related matters, so we don't really have the time to organise
anything on this by the deadline. However, if anyone in the community
is interested and able to put together a proposal for a project, we
have some time set aside next Tuesday to consider it.
All we need is a brief summary covering things like:
- the benefits of the project
- the funding requirements
- any other sources of funding
- the workload requirements (and who will be fulfilling this!)
- how the project will be organised
- whether its been done in the past and experiences gained
Please send any proposals to secretary(a)wikimedia.org.uk
Thanks!
Regards,
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