On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]>wrote:
> Perhaps in future (for say, Haifa) it would be an idea if any chapter-based > scholarships were put on hold until after the Foundation makes its choices? > That way the systems could mesh, with people who don't quite meet the > Foundation requirements/do but oh dear, we've already used up all our > scholarships being forwarded to the chapter for its decision. > Just a quick note on scholarships and chapters: Wikimedia Hungary applied for a government grant to send people to Wikimania and we have just today received the news that we have won about €850, which would have covered the costs of about 5 people (originally we asked for €1160). With this unfortunate timing there were only 4 people from Hungary (2 and a half of them got funding from the WMF, their employer and the organisers) so we can't really utilize this grant. There are some lessons in it for us (we could shoulder some of the costs anticipating a successful grant application and accepting the risk associated with not being successful or being less successful than planned for). It also helps a little that the Haifa Wikimania will be in August, which gives us an extra month and a chance to get at least the results – if not the grant money itself – before the conference. For a successful grant application and in order to induce more participants to go it is also helpful if cost and schedule information are available early on (a budget has to be submitted for the grant, people need to plan their summer accordingly and a schedule helps convince people that they should go to Wikimania for the program as well – not only the nice other people they can meet – and it helps in drafting the grant). Best regards, Bence Damokos _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
