[Wikimedia-l] Info: Richard Symonds email last night

2012-09-21 Thread Fae
Forwarding message from Jon Davies as his email bounced from the list. Thanks, Fae -- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:25:46 +0100 Subject: Richard Symonds email last night

[Wikimedia-l] Transparency about Wikimania costs

2012-09-21 Thread Itzik Edri
Hi, Jessie started to work on a page that shown breakdown of the scholarships given in 2012, by the WMF and the chapters - and the cost. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/2012 I think it's great, but we need to share much more information about how much Wikimania cost to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transparency about Wikimania costs

2012-09-21 Thread JP Béland
I also think all recipients should be publicy disclosed as long with their applications for transparency purposes (on the same way all grants are publicy disclosed with the GAC process). It`s impossible for this year, but we should think of include this info in next year application process. JP

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transparency about Wikimania costs

2012-09-21 Thread Risker
No, they should not. Those applications contain a very significant amount of private information. Risker/Anne On 21 September 2012 17:22, JP Béland lebo.bel...@gmail.com wrote: I also think all recipients should be publicy disclosed as long with their applications for transparency purposes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Transparency about Wikimania costs

2012-09-21 Thread Jessie Wild
Thanks for starting this, Itzik! I agree that a much more transparent and broader view of the resources which go into Wikimania each year. I have a feeling we'll all be in for a bit of a surprise. Those of us involved with Wikimania from the WMF side are all onboard to contribute. Garfield and