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

[Oliver Keyes]

If wishes were fishes and all that. Still, it's July now; could budgets not
get approved before January?

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> On 7/21/10 1:37 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> > The attendance of French Wikipedians was certainly high; I travelled
> through
> > to Gdansk with five or six (the "Why France/Britain sucks" conversations"
> > were amusing). I think it's an excellent idea for individual chapters to
> > distribute scholarships, but yes, there is a time element involved. I
> guess
> > it isn't even necessarily needed for the Chapter scholarships to be
> issued
> > afterwards; merely at a different time. Maybe before would work? That way
> > you'd avoid the problem of not distributing all of it.
>
> It would also help if budget was approved at the beginning of the year
> so that it would be "visible" as early as January that money is left
> aside for such a use later in the year (it could also be mentionned
> during general assembly for example).
>
> Alas...
>
> Well, every year brings new improvements ;)
>
> Ant
>
>
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner<
> > christophe.henner at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noein<pronoein at gmail.com>  wrote:
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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?
> >>
> >> We advertised it on the french Wikipedia of course, and on every
> >> french wikimedia project iirc. As long as on our blog and through
> >> social media.
> >>
> >> Christophe
> >>
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