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

[Florence Devouard]

yes, as long as it is next year budget ;)

ant

On 7/21/10 4:28 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> 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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