[Foundation-l] Chapter wikimania scholarships Was: Money, politics and corruption

[Keegan Peterzell]

....which, considering most governments, requires at least 18 months
notice.  Most conference scheduling is a 12~14 month window.  Paperwork at
its best.  But, really, good for Hungary to provide the grant even if it's
too little/too late.

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Oliver Keyes <scire.facias at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah, I see your point - it's a timing thing. It only works if you've got
> enough notice in advance, which requires your budget to be set up and the
> organisers of Wikimania to be completely on the ball.
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Bence Damokos <bdamokos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Oliver Keyes <scire.facias at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Perhaps in future (for say, Haifa) it would be an idea if any
> > chapter-based
> > > scholarships were put on hold until after the Foundation makes its
> > choices?
> > > That way the systems could mesh, with people who don't quite meet the
> > > Foundation requirements/do but oh dear, we've already used up all our
> > > scholarships being forwarded to the chapter for its decision.
> > >
> >
> > Just a quick note on scholarships and chapters:
> > Wikimedia Hungary applied for a government grant to send people to
> > Wikimania
> > and we have just today received the news that we have won about €850,
> which
> > would have covered the costs of about 5 people (originally we asked for
> > €1160). With this unfortunate timing there were only 4 people from
> Hungary
> > (2 and a half of them got funding from the WMF, their employer and the
> > organisers) so we can't really utilize this grant.
> >
> > There are some lessons in it for us (we could shoulder some of the costs
> > anticipating a successful grant application and accepting the risk
> > associated with not being successful or being less successful than
> planned
> > for).
> >  It also helps a little that the Haifa Wikimania will be in August, which
> > gives us an extra month and a chance to get at least the results – if not
> > the grant money itself – before the conference.
> >
> > For a successful grant application and in order to induce more
> participants
> > to go it is also helpful if cost and schedule information are available
> > early on (a budget has to be submitted for the grant, people need to plan
> > their summer accordingly and a schedule helps convince people that they
> > should go to Wikimania for the program as well – not only the nice other
> > people they can meet – and it helps in drafting the grant).
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bence Damokos
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