The attendance of French Wikipedians was certainly high; I travelled through to Gdansk with five or six (the "Why France/Britain sucks" conversations" were amusing). I think it's an excellent idea for individual chapters to distribute scholarships, but yes, there is a time element involved. I guess it isn't even necessarily needed for the Chapter scholarships to be issued afterwards; merely at a different time. Maybe before would work? That way you'd avoid the problem of not distributing all of it.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner < [email protected]> wrote: > On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noein <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 21/07/2010 01:57, Florence Devouard wrote: > >> This decision was approved on the 24th of may and was advertised in > >> various (french speaking) venues. The scholarship only proposed two > >> different types of packages: 250 euros or 500 euros. > >> There was no requirement of nationality or location, though we would > >> probably have focused on French participants. A commission was receiving > >> the scholarship requests and approving them. > >> Scholars had two main obligations : > >> - actually being at the conference :) > >> - report after the conference > >> > >> > >> In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed, > >> which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants > >> had never been as high in a Wikimania. > > > > Out of curiosity, would contacting the french-speaking registered users > > of en. and fr. wikipedia have been a good advertisement strategy? > > We advertised it on the french Wikipedia of course, and on every > french wikimedia project iirc. As long as on our blog and through > social media. > > Christophe > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
