[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Re: Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone

[Deryck Chan]

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From: "Deryck Chan" <deryckchan at gmail.com>
Date: 29 Apr 2013 12:42
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark
to everyone
To: <cfranklin at halonetwork.net>
Cc: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

See the footnotes on the FDC decision page. Both WMHK and WMCZ were
declared eligible at the time of submission, but the WMF subsequently found
new faults during the review period which they chose to use as convenient
excuses to disqualify these 2 chapters.
On 29 Apr 2013 12:33, "Craig Franklin" <cfranklin at halonetwork.net> wrote:

> I'd like to come back to this - if the entity was told they were eligible
> (which certainly looks to be the case from the public documents), when was
> it discovered they were not?  Obviously, putting together an FDC
> application is a tremendous amount of work for a chapter, and if the effort
> was futile from the start, then the time that Deryck and WMHK put into this
> could have been better spent on useful programme work instead.
>
> Cheers,
> Craig Franklin
>
>
> On 29 April 2013 17:25, Thehelpfulone <thehelpfulonewiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 29 Apr 2013, at 07:52, Tilman Bayer <tbayer at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not familiar with the case, but reading that page, it seems that
> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:WM_HK/Education_Toolkits_For_Liberal_Studies/Report#Remaining_funds
> > > might also have played a role for the FDC's recommendation?
> >
> > Indeed, yet it looks like there has been no (public) follow up by the
> paid
> > WMF grants staff for over a month. In addition,
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Hong_KongshowsWMHK to still be an eligible entity.
> >
> > Winifred/Asaf, please can you clarify whether WMHK is still an eligible
> > entity and what follow up was done after that message a month ago?
> >
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