Hi everyone, Thank you for your questions so far! :)
Bináris: We can commit to deciding and approving a first round of scholarships within 1 week of closing scholarship registration. Scholarship registration closes: October 23 We will approve and announce by: October 31
If there is anybody that has a special time-constraint related circumstance please email qgil@wikimedia.org and myself and we will see what we can do to accommodate.
Ryan: At the summit this year we would like to know that everybody attending will be engaged and will know why they are attending. Regarding WMF staff, we will be accepting all applicants who have something reasonable written in response to the question you reference. We are assuming that most traveling WMF staff who are willing to be away from home for an additional 3 days and have their managers approval and funding to attend have already thought about and discussed their plan for this event when deciding to allocate the funds and work time, so hopefully it is not a burden to verbalize them to us. Possibly some of the local-to-SF staff have not had had this discussion yet, but they have some additional time to think about why they would like to attend before they apply. If we turn down any WMF staff registrations we will explain why we have done so, and as long as there is still space they can re-apply. Alternately, any WMF staff are welcome to skip the first two days of the Developer Summit and apply only to attend the unscheduled / hacking day. It will take quite an awful response to have an unscheduled-day only registration rejected.
C. Scott: Yes, currently the form is asking for session proposals when they cannot yet be proposed. We were hoping to open registration and the call for participation at the same time, weeks ago. This hasn't been possible, as the discussion about main topics hasn't been resolve. The program committee is working to have this part solved by next week but we could not delay opening registration any longer and make issues like Bináris highlights harder on those travelers requiring visas.
I hope these answers help! Thank you all very much for your feedback and patience!
Rachel
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:35 AM, C. Scott Ananian cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
...further, I don't think there's a process (yet) for making proposals for the dev summit, so I don't think it's possible to answer this question at this time.
I just assumed that whoever will be evaluating these knows that, and filled in "not yet!" under "Have you submitted a proposal for an activity at the Wikimedia Developer Summit?".
Similarly for, "Are there any topics that you would like to see at this year's event?", there is only an extremely rough draft of these topics at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Topic_ideas -- and I think I proposed about half of these. So I self-cited, but it's not clear how useful this question will be in general to other attendees at this point. --scott
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm a little confused. Under the "WMF Staff Questions" section of the registration it's asking "Why should you be sponsored by WMF to attend
the
Wikimedia Developer Summit?" and it says that "We will only be approving WMF staff to attend this event who are planning to actively engage...", etc. implying that approval to attend the developer summit is contingent
on
their answer to this question. However, budget owners were already asked
to
fill out flight and lodging approvals for all of their direct reports
(for
both the All Staff and Dev Summit). Is there a second round of vetting
that
will happen at some point?
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
2016-09-23 12:09 GMT+02:00 Rachel Farrand rfarrand@wikimedia.org:
The deadline to request travel sponsorship is Monday October 24th.
And when will the requests be ansered?
I am just thinking of travelling (still sot sure how useful it is for
me
at the moment and if I can leave my work), but in case of applying I
would
have a trouble.
Last year I visited Iran as a tourist, and since then I have been a potential terrorist according to the government of the United States of America. That means I have to apply for a visa 3 months prior to
travelling
(not like other Hungarians who did not visit Iran, and may travel
easily
for that reason). I think other people may be involved, too.
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