Dear Wikipedians, Wikimedians, Ganesh ji, Saroj ji and Working committee team members! 

As you must remember from my previous emails few months back, we had successfully completed the project grant awarded to us from the Wikimedia Foundation in 2013-14. The final project report (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/User:Ganesh_Paudel_-_Wikipedia_Expansion_Program_in_Nepal/Report) was prepared with support from all Wikipedians and project activity leads from working comittee. 

Even-though, we have completed All the projected activities and submitted all the necessary report in time, the current status of this project report is open. It is due to unspent project grant amount sealed in the joint bank account of the signatories of the grantee (including myself). 

While finalizing the report, we seek for re-allocation of the unspent amount, as sending back the amount to the foundation, could itself be an challenge in our national banking context. To this request, the grants team, partially approved the re-allocation of some amount for the 12th Anniversary of Wikimedia in Nepal, which is now complete. As documented in the meta page here (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/User:Ganesh_Paudel_-_Wikipedia_Expansion_Program_in_Nepal/Report#Reallocation_request_response)

Now, we have been asked by the grants team, as what we would like to do with the remaining grant amount. Shall we seek for new grant reallocation or return the money. Please refer to Alex email below for detail.

Please do share your views or ways to reach a decision. Also if there is any other Wikipedia Expansion activities that you might want to seek support for, lets discuss and seek grant team's approval in due time.

I, as one of the signatory of the grant, would personally like to settle this matter and close the accounts as soon as possible. 

Looking forward to hear from the community!


With kind regards, 

Hempal Shrestha
G.P.O Box: 5501
1753 Ramshah Path, Near Nepal Share Market, 
Putalisadak, Kathmandu, Nepal
+977-1-4261459 (O)  / +977-9851077031(M)

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From: Alex Wang <awang@wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:54 AM
Subject: Grant report reallocation
To: Hempal Shrestha <hempalshrestha@gmail.com>, Ganesh Paudel <gpaudel@gmail.com>
Cc: PEG Grants <grants@wikimedia.org>


Hi Ganesh and Hempal,

I hope you are both doing well!

As we are nearing the end of the year, it would be good to get clarity on your open grant report. Please let us know if you are planning to reallocate the remaining funds to a new grant request or if you would like to return the money. 

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/User:Ganesh_Paudel_-_Wikipedia_Expansion_Program_in_Nepal/Report#Reallocation_request_response

I'd be happy to discuss any ideas or questions you may have. 

Cheers,

Alex

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Alex Wang <awang@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Hempal and Ganesh,

Thanks so much for the update. Look forward to hearing from you later this month. Let me know if you'd like to discuss future activities before you draft a proposal.

Cheers,

Alex




On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Hempal Shrestha <hempalshrestha@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Alex, Ganesh ji, 

Me also just under work pressure as financial year closing. Will be away for a week early next week and will be back Nepal on July 21. Look forward than to workout the future action activities. Lets work out as how we can keep continuing our Wiki initiatives in Nepal.

With kind regards

Hempal Shrestha


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Ganesh Paudel <gpaudel@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Alex,
We are at the end of Fiscal Year (2070/71) which is going to end on 16th July. This is the matter which is keeping most of us occupied in our respective works. We will try to response soon. Hopefully, we will be applying for new grant.

Regards,
Ganesh


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Alex Wang <awang@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Ganesh and Hempal,

Please reply to our response to your reallocation request. If you don't plan on submitting another request in the next 10 days, you should plan on returning the unused funds. Let me know if you'd like to talk regarding upcoming plans.

Cheers,

Alex


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Alex Wang <awang@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Ganesh,

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding our response to the reallocation request. We also need to know if you plan on submitting another grant request soon and will hold on to the remaining funds or if you will be returning the funds to WMF. Please post this information on the discussion page. 

Thanks,

Alex


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Alex Wang <awang@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Once we have your confirmation we can approve the report.

Thanks,

Alex



On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Alex Wang <awang@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Hempal,

Thank you for the update and the reallocation request. I've left a note on the discussion page asking you to provide a few more budget details regarding the anniversary line item.

Thanks,

Alex


On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Ganesh Paudel <gpaudel@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Alex and Asaf,
As usual, we are working in the 11th hr. and this time about our 12th Anniversary.

Since the Anniversary is approaching (Tuesday, 3rd June) and we want to spend some amount in the event of editathon, talks and cake party. Please approve the amount Nrs. 50,000/- (Fifty Thousand Rupees) for the event.

We are satisfied to have most of the activities although we could not complete all of them.
As looking for the reasons, there were too much activities that was difficult to handle with small number of volunteers, and other notable thing is during the grant period, we felt some resistance to run the programs smoothly that made difficult to complete the tasks and finish the small grant amount.

This time, we again are trying to complete some tasks by the remaining amount that we think will be helpful for making comfortable path for the future wikipedians/wikimedians in Nepal.

With best regards
Hempal Shrestha
&
Ganesh Paudel
Wikimedians of Nepal


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Alex Wang <awang@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Ganesh,

Thanks for the update. We understand that responding takes a bit of time - just wanted to make sure you had seen the comments! In terms of the NRs 50,000 for the 12th anniversary celebration, please make the request on the discussion page of the report and provide more details on how the funds will be spent. We can review that request asap and then the additional reallocation request once it is submitted.

Cheers,

Alex


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Ganesh Paudel <gpaudel@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Alex,
We are working for the re-allocation request. For this, we are carrying on discussion in the local community. We will immediately post the re allocation request.

For now, we have given some answers to your queries. We are in answering phase now so please give us a few more time.

At the time we have a good news 
Nepali Wikipedia is entering to Teenage by next week. We are grown up! We are celebrating the Anniversary on 3rd of June. For the event we request to allocate NRs. 50,000.00 to celebrate it.

Please tell us about the procedure to have this decision made quickly.

Cheers,
Ganesh



On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Alex Wang <awang@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Ganesh and Hempal,

Please note that we have left comments/questions and instructions on submitting a reallocation request on the discussion page of your report.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/User:Ganesh_Paudel_-_Wikipedia_Expansion_Program_in_Nepal/Report

It would be great to have your response so we can move forward with accepting the report.

Cheers,

Alex

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Program Officer
Project & Event Grants
Skype: alexvwang




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Program Officer
Project & Event Grants
Skype: alexvwang




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Alex Wang
Program Officer
Project & Event Grants
Skype: alexvwang



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Alex Wang
Program Officer
Project & Event Grants
Skype: alexvwang



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Alex Wang
Program Officer
Project & Event Grants
Skype: alexvwang



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Alex Wang
Program Officer
Project & Event Grants
Skype: alexvwang




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With kind regards, 

Hempal Shrestha
FOSS Solutions : A Knowledge Collaboration Enterprise
G.P.O Box: 5501
1753 Ramshah Path, Near Nepal Share Market, 
Putalisadak, Kathmandu, Nepal



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Alex Wang
Program Officer
Project & Event Grants
Skype: alexvwang



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Alex Wang
Program Officer
Project & Event Grants
Skype: alexvwang