[Foundation-l] Proposal for the application for a grant that has to be applied for before the 20th]

[Robin Shannon]

Fucking brilliant idea, but im not quite sure about the ideas to spend
the money. Exactly what is needed on the software front that isnt
currently provided by wikimedia?

paz y amor,
[[User:The bellman]]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:51:48 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> 
> I have posted http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IFAP it is an outline for a
> proposal for a $45.000,- grant. We need to apply before the 20th of this
> month. Please, do understand that if we apply for this grant, we have to
> spend money the way we describe. It does not help if you think we should
> not spend the money. We either do or we do not apply and, that way we do
> not benefit and neither do the people who benefit most who are
> incidentally not the people who get paid.
> 
> This proposal aims to achieve three things:
> * cooperation with the Open Office org by creating a dictionary
> integrated into wiktionary for languages they work on. This is a win win
> situation
> *a dictionary and translations dictionary that helps translators and
> students of languages; wiktionary is a many to many dictionary
> *better functionality for wiktionary that will prevent a lot of double
> work and removes the need for running bots to share our work.
> 
> I hope we agree that this is a feasible project and that we can move
> forward with this proposal.
> 
> Thanks.
>    GerardM
> 
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