You miss the point we do this as volunteers: a stipend isn't necessary.
It's a just nice way to say thankyou for your time, offering it up may help
some people who would make great mentors being able to dedicate extra
time. If you're doing it just for the stipend then it should be
questionable as
In what way would it be bad to "publish [the analysis] to inform
future projects"?
Neither was it stated or implied in my email that stipends were to
"cover every cost", just to put $5/hour in context that it may be
enough to pay for a take-away, but it's not enough to cover anything
significant
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Sorry meant to say every second month, to be honest as mentors we should be
doing it to help others grow and help the movement grow not for the stipend
anyway
On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 20:00, Gnangarra wrote:
> stipends aren't meant to cover every cost for the volunteer, its an
> acknowledgement
stipends aren't meant to cover every cost for the volunteer, its an
acknowledgement that as volunteers we do incur costs we can always choose
not to contribute. $200 a month yeah thats nice when your in the US, EU or
AU for other less well off countries it does make a difference for them.
It'd be
It's worth highlighting the stipend (presumably intended for otherwise
unpaid volunteers who are not full-time employees of the WMF). It's
$200 for "each 2 months" and covers costs of "childcare, internet,
transportation and other costs that make volunteering possible".
The commitment is to give
