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

[Oliver Keyes]

Yar, hence the problem. Still, it's nice of individual chapters to provide
grants, although I'm not sure how widely they're advertised.

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> ....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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