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?

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote: The only real cost for Well that figure is OTT. A more reasonable amount would be 1 at 100 and two local wikipedians at much less. For example an offpeak travel card in london costs 7 odd quid. So by choosing Londoners to visit the London schools costs would be cut considerably. I'm pretty sure the same could be said for other towns. Of course 5 schools is paltry. Upping it to 15 would easily up the numbers to a reasonable amount. Theresa

2009/2/18 Theresa Knott <theresaknott(a)gmail.com>om>: That depends on to who we get to volunteer. I guess we can choose the initial schools according to where we have volunteers, and probably halve the cost per school. Later schools may end up costing more, since we don't want to concentrate too much on schools in just a few areas. I was thinking 5 as a starting point to see how it goes. For all we know it might not work and it's all a waste of time and money (I think that's unlikely, but really I can only guess). We'll know either way after the first 5. Perhaps we should see if we can get £750 for the first 5 with the option of another £1500 for 10 more if they go well. After that, we'll hopefully have out own funds to continue (and we could acquire sponsorship from Becta or similar - if we have a few schools willing to say how brilliant we were, it shouldn't be difficult to get funding). _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l

If you're interested in going to schools, then you may find that the schools are willing to cover the travel costs etc. in exchange for a good educational session. Something else to factor in, though, is the development of the session content and any necessary materials.

Also, would the wikimedians going be paid for their time, or would they have to volunteer it? If you pay for their time, then you tend to get a lot more people interested in doing a session...

On Feb 18, 9:33 am, Michael Peel <em...(a)mikepeel.net> wrote: 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, _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org