Hi Ilario,
As said before, that certain grant requests are submitted late, it doesn't mean it is a good idea.
I was also not speaking about WLM organizers alone, but about all organizers in general. Shutting down the grantmaking for them is highly demotivating. Also when it does not effect them directly.
It is effectively shutting down all projects that should start or are to be started in these three months. The Grants page says https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start : "Supporting mission-allied people and organizations around the world." This is not supporting, but demotivating, demolishing, discouraging, and frustrating the organizing volunteers.
Shutting down the grantmaking gives a strong negative signal to every organiser. "Your project is not important enough for the movement", that is what this campaign says.
This is campaign is not benefiting the community, it is damaging it and it is damaging the trust of the community in WMF.
It is enlarging the Community Gap.
Romaine
2015-01-03 20:53 GMT+01:00 Ilario Valdelli valdelli@gmail.com:
Hi Romaine, probably it's my feeling but a lot of countries apply for a grant for WLM very late (in general during summer).
So it cannot be demotivating for WLM.
I do not understand the impact of the project to assign the first three months of 2015 to a specific topic with the normal period of application for the national teams.
The same international team of 2013 submitted the request in June.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wiki_Loves_ Monuments_international_team/2013_coordination
Regards
On 03.01.2015 20:01, Romaine Wiki wrote:
Hi Jane,
Read! https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/ 2014-December/007600.html
From February 1-April 30, PEG will only accept
proposals as part of the gender gap campaign, with the exception for urgent requests.
This means regular projects will not be accepted. That is effectively shutting the grantmaking down. Of course we will not let WLM to be shut down. But this grantmaking shutting down is very demotivating and discouraging, for many organisers.
This is also counter productive in solving the gender gap problem.
Romaine
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