[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

Greetings, Thanks for the update about this second extension. There are unanswered threads on the talk page such as "Let the regions choose themselves" and a few other threads.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

Dear Wikimedians, On behalf of the Community Resources Team, I want to share some updates regarding the Regional Grant Committees. We have received many great applications from Wikimedians across the globe and are excited to move to the next steps in the process. We have extended the deadline

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

Hello Tanveer Thank you for those answers. Some questions have been moved to meta as suggested, but have not received any answer yet. Can you please have a look ? Thanks Florence Le 21/05/2021 à 19:12, Tanveer Hasan a écrit : Hi Florence, I wanted to bring to your attention that the CR

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

So while this thread has highlighted many sensible comments and questions, I also want to recognise the value in the approach the WMF is taking to this. A consistent piece of feedback within the Movement is that support in the form of grants and capacity-building feels remote from most affiliates

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

This is a good point. In addition some affiliates don't receive money from WMF (even big affiliates). I think that the rationale should be clarified because applied as is it's quite discriminatory. I understand that there should be a turnover but for grants the experience is the main value to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

I would like to echo Bodhisattwa's concern, and add that there is a great ambiguity here. What is the definition of "affiliate board member" being used here? A large number of affiliates are small and do not have a board, but are more informally organized. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) On Fri,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

Thank you for doing that, Tanveer and the rest of the team. I was just thinking that it would be good to centralize the discussion. Risker/Anne On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 13:12, Tanveer Hasan wrote: > Hi Florence, > > I wanted to bring to your attention that the CR team has responded to your >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

Hi Florence, I wanted to bring to your attention that the CR team has responded to your questions on the discussion page of the Community Resources/Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021 . We are doing this

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

Is it really necessary to start all seven at the same time, and now? Would it not be better to start with two or three, where it is possible to get a strong committee? And work with these six month or a year to learn of challenges and possible improvements, before setting up the rest. Anders

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

Well, Isla and I were also discussing precisely this point this afternoon Bodhisattwa. The fact board members+staff members+beneficiaries of grants are to be non-eligible can be very well understood from a conflict of interest point of view. But practically speaking... if those are not

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

Greetings, Thanks for announcing this. I like the decentralisation attempt. For better understanding, I have the following questions. Thanks for your attention. A. Decision Making procedure # Who will be in the decision-making position? Does the committee recommend, and the Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

Hi, I am concerned about the exclusion of affiliate board members in the regional committees. This decision would exclude a large portion of experienced volunteers who are there in different user group decision making committees. For global south countries, that would diminish the pool of

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

I am very concerned that you think you're going to get about 80 qualified and committed volunteers to do this work within the next few weeks. This is unrealistic. I also agree with Florence's concerns. Risker/Anne On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 08:33, Florence Devouard wrote: > Hello Julia > > > I

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

Hi Florence, I am responding on behalf of the Community Resources Team. Thank you very much for your questions. Please allow us a little time to respond to these questions. In the meanwhile, I want to assure you that the CR team would be providing all kinds of support to the grantees during this

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

Hello Julia I apology if I missed a step at some point. In this application, I read that "All the current grant committees (both active and inactive) will cease to function with the implementation of the new grants strategy of the Community Resources Team effective from 1 July 2021. We