Re: [Wikimedia-l] Travel & Participation Support program closing

2018-03-15 Thread Katy Love
Hello again, everyone! Whoops! Let me try again, this time without the unfinished sentence. Hello there Andy, Sure thing. Rapid Grants will require Wikimedians who travel to non-Wikimedia events to create a more robust engagement plan. The reason for this is to increase the likelihood that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Travel & Participation Support program closing

2018-03-15 Thread Katy Love
Hello there Andy, Sure thing. Rapid Grants will require Wikimedians who travel to non-Wikimedia events to create a more robust engagement plan. The reason for this is to increase the likelihood that their participation will have an impact on other attendees. In TPS, we sometimes funded people

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Travel & Participation Support program closing

2018-03-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 12 March 2018 at 18:08, Katy Love wrote: > Some background: TPS was created in 2011 as a movement outreach program. It > reimburses travel expenses for Wikimedian volunteers who present about > Wikimedia at non-Wikimedia events. Its closure comes as a consequence of > the

[Wikimedia-l] Travel & Participation Support program closing

2018-03-12 Thread Katy Love
Hi there, Wikimedians, I am writing to let you know that the WMF Community Resources team is closing one of our smaller funding programs, Travel and Participation Support (TPS) [1]. *TPS will no longer accept applications as of May 1, 2018.* Some background: TPS was created in 2011 as a movement