Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-22 Thread maarten deneckere
Hey everyone, I discussed this with the Wikimania 2012 team, and they will use the results from this questionnaire to hand out the scholarships next year. So, help us out: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG1BaUJHZkpJS2puSHJuTGN0Sk9NcHc6MQ (reminder) Grtz, Maarten

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-18 Thread James Hare
On Aug 18, 2011, at 2:43 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: The big advantage of fixed sums is that you don't have to bother about people choosing the cheapest/most sensible flight, accommodation and so on, which is almost impossible to do; but then you have to choose a

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-18 Thread Itzik Edri
wow. 1700$ from D.C to Israel? from my experience, the prices suppose to be more like 1300-1500$~ Itzik On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:17 PM, James Hare messedroc...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 18, 2011, at 2:43 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: The big advantage of fixed sums

[Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread maarten deneckere
Hey, On the Wikimania wikihttp://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback#Scholarshipswe have some discussions on the best way to organize the partial scholarships. We want to prevent that people from countries far away from the venue (Australia, Canada, thirld world countries, ...) stay home

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread Casey Brown
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:27 PM, maarten deneckere maartendeneckere+wikima...@gmail.com wrote: Please help us for the next conference, and fill in the questionnaire on https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG1BaUJHZkpJS2puSHJuTGN0Sk9NcHc6MQ Is this being wrong by the

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread aude
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:27 PM, maarten deneckere maartendeneckere+wikima...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, On the Wikimania wikihttp://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback#Scholarshipswe have some discussions on the best way to organize the partial scholarships. We want to prevent that

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread Lodewijk
The current setup does not seem to target non-attendees if I read the questions - none the less one of the querstions does give it as an option... *confused* 2011/8/17 aude aude.w...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:27 PM, maarten deneckere maartendeneckere+wikima...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread maarten deneckere
This is my idea. I heard a lot of people complaining only a small part of their flight was paid back, or others (smarter!) persons admitted they had to search for other sources of funding. Like I stated on the form, all entries will be made anonymous before analysing and discussing (removal of

Re: [Wikimania-l] Partial scholarship system

2011-08-17 Thread maarten deneckere
Lodewijk, if you did not attend, you can just add the flight costs *you would have paid to get there*. I added it on the form. Grtz, Maarten 2011/8/17 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org The current setup does not seem to target non-attendees if I read the questions - none the less one of