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

[Thehelpfulone]

Deryck please could you confirm what happened with regards to the unused funds - did WMHK request a reallocation?

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On 29 Apr 2013, at 12:43, Deryck Chan <deryckchan at wikimedia.hk> wrote:

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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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