From the 101 people that has registered to the Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, 24 are requesting travel and/or accommodation sponsorship (a few of them apparently by mistake)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Scholarships
The deadline for scholarship application is March 16th. Our goal is to notify applicants by March 17th. Don't miss the deadline!
Five organizations are contributing sponsorship funds and, to be honest, I still don't know exactly how these five entities will match the budget available with a common list of accepted participants. Still, it is good to see more Wikimedia organizations stepping in to support independent developers, and I have no doubt that we will sort out the process in the next days.
In order to help sharing common standards between organizations and also between events, I have started a draft with principles and guidelines at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/Travel_sp...
Your help is welcome, regardless of how selfish or altruistic your motivations are. A good idea is always a good idea, especially when it comes as an edit to a wiki page.
Just a reminder:
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
From the 101 people that has registered to the Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, 24 are requesting travel and/or accommodation sponsorship (a few of them apparently by mistake)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Scholarships
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The deadline for scholarship application is March 16th. Our goal is to notify applicants by March 17th. Don't miss the deadline!
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Five organizations are contributing sponsorship funds and, to be honest, I still don't know exactly how these five entities will match the budget available with a common list of accepted participants. Still, it is good to see more Wikimedia organizations stepping in to support independent developers, and I have no doubt that we will sort out the process in the next days.
In order to help sharing common standards between organizations and also between events, I have started a draft with principles and guidelines at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/Travel_sp...
Your help is welcome, regardless of how selfish or altruistic your motivations are. A good idea is always a good idea, especially when it comes as an edit to a wiki page.
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