[Foundation-l] Wikimedia France Wikimania Scholarships (was Re: Money, politics and corruption)

[Noein]

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On 21/07/2010 01:57, Florence Devouard wrote:
> This decision was approved on the 24th of may and was advertised in 
> various (french speaking) venues. The scholarship only proposed two 
> different types of packages: 250 euros or 500 euros.
> There was no requirement of nationality or location, though we would 
> probably have focused on French participants. A commission was receiving 
> the scholarship requests and approving them.
> Scholars had two main obligations :
> - actually being at the conference :)
> - report after the conference
> 
> 
> In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed, 
> which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants 
> had never been as high in a Wikimania.

Out of curiosity, would contacting the french-speaking registered users
of en. and fr. wikipedia have been a good advertisement strategy?
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