yes, as long as it is next year budget ;) ant
On 7/21/10 4:28 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > If wishes were fishes and all that. Still, it's July now; could budgets not > get approved before January? > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Florence Devouard<anthe...@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> On 7/21/10 1:37 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: >>> 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. >> >> It would also help if budget was approved at the beginning of the year >> so that it would be "visible" as early as January that money is left >> aside for such a use later in the year (it could also be mentionned >> during general assembly for example). >> >> Alas... >> >> Well, every year brings new improvements ;) >> >> Ant >> >> >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner< >>> christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noein<prono...@gmail.com> 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 >>>> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l