Just a reminder:
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
From the 101 people that has registered to the Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, 24 are requesting travel and/or accommodation sponsorship (a few of them apparently by mistake)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Scholarships
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The deadline for scholarship application is March 16th. Our goal is to notify applicants by March 17th. Don't miss the deadline!
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Five organizations are contributing sponsorship funds and, to be honest, I still don't know exactly how these five entities will match the budget available with a common list of accepted participants. Still, it is good to see more Wikimedia organizations stepping in to support independent developers, and I have no doubt that we will sort out the process in the next days.
In order to help sharing common standards between organizations and also between events, I have started a draft with principles and guidelines at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/Travel_sp...
Your help is welcome, regardless of how selfish or altruistic your motivations are. A good idea is always a good idea, especially when it comes as an edit to a wiki page.