I agree with others that when a scholarship/grant is made involving non-trivial travel and living expenses such as air fares and hotels, the recipients should be identified, if only by username. Exceptions to this should be made very sparingly, and for very good reasons. If individuals attending Wikimania or other events don't want to be named on any basis, that is their business, though I found it frustrating in Washington in 2012 that no such list was available, even just in print at the event. I hope this year's Wikimania will at least make a list of those who don't mind their presence being public, or available to other attendees.
John Johnbod
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:46 PM, John Byrne john@bodkinprints.co.uk wrote:
I agree with others that when a scholarship/grant is made involving non-trivial travel and living expenses such as air fares and hotels, the recipients should be identified, if only by username. Exceptions to this should be made very sparingly, and for very good reasons.
+1. Note that, as Jon said, "all scholarship recipients agree to produce a public report afterwards summarising the key things they have taken from the event". If it is of any length, sure such a report could only be notionally anonymous. As the writer of such a report last year, I'm not sure how I could have structured it to avoid making the authorship clear to those who cared. So in terms of after-the-fact privacy, we should be up front about that requirement, and if the default procedure isn't, we should institute steps to make it so.
Just my 2c, Harry
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On 31 Mar 2014, at 14:46, John Byrne john@bodkinprints.co.uk wrote:
I agree with others that when a scholarship/grant is made involving non-trivial travel and living expenses such as air fares and hotels, the recipients should be identified, if only by username. Exceptions to this should be made very sparingly, and for very good reasons. If individuals attending Wikimania or other events don't want to be named on any basis, that is their business, though I found it frustrating in Washington in 2012 that no such list was available, even just in print at the event. I hope this year's Wikimania will at least make a list of those who don't mind their presence being public, or available to other attendees.
+1, I agree with this completely.
When people are receiving money from the Wikimedia movement to support their attendance, there should be an extra burden of transparency on them in order to justify that expenditure - the minimum there should be clarity on who is being funded to go, the ideal there would be them also writing up their experiences after the event. Where this hasn't happened in the past has been more to do with lack of time/capacity than deliberate secrecy.
Thanks, Mike
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