Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

2015-05-02 Thread Pine W
Hi Micru, My understanding is that the thinking at WMF is that, if this campaign is successful, they may repeat Inspire with a different focus, perhaps global south, underrepresented languages, public health, or education programs. It could be very beneficial to involve affiliates in some of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

2015-05-02 Thread David Cuenca
Liam, that is true, originally I submitted an idea because of the specific topic of the campaign, which later on evolved into a more generic project which could potentially address other kind of issues. BUT, without the original hook, perhaps I would have never submitted anything. I hope the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

2015-05-02 Thread Hasive Chowdhury
Thank you Liam for your nice comments. Hasive On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Micru, My understanding is that the thinking at WMF is that, if this campaign is successful, they may repeat Inspire with a different focus, perhaps global south,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

2015-05-01 Thread Siko Bouterse
Liam, thanks for writing this - as an early campaign critic, it means a lot to our team to see your updated thinking here! I see much value in running experiments that help us test our assumptions and refine our understanding of what works and what doesn't in this movement, and am glad to know

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

2015-05-01 Thread Pine W
Hi Liam, I too am happy with many aspects of Aspire. However, the campaign scheduling and communications issues caused major headaches here in Cascadia, and was disruptive in other ways that I'd rather not document in a public list. The Community Resources and LE teams are aware of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

2015-05-01 Thread Sydney Poore
Thank you, Liam, for the supportive positive comments. Sydney On May 1, 2015 5:36 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations on bringing to the surface these 16 project ideas! I'm looking forward to seeing how these specific projects go, and also to seeing if they can become

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

2015-05-01 Thread Liam Wyatt
Congratulations on bringing to the surface these 16 project ideas! I'm looking forward to seeing how these specific projects go, and also to seeing if they can become replicable models for future activities and help solve the broad gender-gap problem. When the inspire campaign was first announced

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

2015-05-01 Thread Alex Wang
Hi All, Today we're pleased to announce a new group of grantees working to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects. In early March, we announced the Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, an initiative led by WMF’s Community Resources team to generate