[Flow Funding] Skopje University Project

[Kiril Simeonovski]

Hi,

Yes, the grant should cover travel costs, accommodation and compensation
for the speaker who is one of the leading professors in Econometrics and
Statistics. All other expenses will be shared by the Faculty of Economics,
including rental for the venue, technical equipment, technical support,
promotional expenses and other. I was told that the opportunity cost for
this project is that these expenses for the use of these facilities at the
faculty will have to be paid in order to organize similar events, while in
this case it is possible to benefit from the presence of an eminent person
who will participate in the project related to Wikipedia and thus improve
the publicity about the Wikimedia projects in the country.

The audience will not only include students and other professors, but
representatives from other banks and journalists as well. The created
content will be monitored by the guest-speaker (probably from the
University of Cambridge or the University of Oxford), who can also be a
potential link to the implementation of similar projects and activities at
the universities in his home country.

Best regards,

Kiril

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:32 PM, poupou <poupoulquourouce at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Dear Kiril,
>
> The project sounds interesting. However, I am not quite sure, whether I
> understood what the funding would be needed for? Travel expenses? To pay
> the guest speakers for their work?
>
> Best regards
> poupou
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> From: Kiril Simeonovski <kiril.simeonovski at gmail.com>
> To: flowfunding at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Flow Funding] Potential project
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> Dear flow funders,
>
> A professor at the Faculty of Economics at Skopje University is interested
> to implement modern techniques in his curriculum by introducing the
> Wikimedia projects, lectures related to some aspects of the Wikis, and
> invite speakers from other universities in the region. I still don't have
> much information about the budget for this project, but I was told that it
> won't be costly and therefore decided to mediate in the process about the
> project. The basic idea is to invite a special guest from abroad who will
> have to give several lectures in specific subjects of statistics to the
> auditorium at the faculty. Meanwhile, the students will be assigned to
> create content to the Wikimedia projects (specifically Wikipedia, Wikibooks
> and possibly Wikiversity) and post it until a previously defined deadline.
> One of the main roles of the guest is to be his commitment to link to other
> universities abroad and propose the implementation of a project in a
> similar way. The latter can be easily processed through the existing
> Wikimedia chapter or community in the home country of the guest-speaker.
>
> When I heard for the idea about this project, it sounded pretty good and
> interesting to me. Can you please share some of your thoughts whether it's
> viable to support a such project through the flow funding process?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kiril Simeonovski
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