Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread private musings
A few responses; "..I don't think our chapter is capable of producing a grant application.." - sure we've only got 10 days, but I think it's worth a try, and the process of giving it a go would, I feel, be beneficial - does anyone have any ideas whatsoever they'd like any help in preparing a grant

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread Sarah Ewart
To be entirely frank, I would have to agree that given both the long term and recent "controversies" throughout WMF universe which culminated in Jimmy recently describing PM as a troll and calling for him to be globally banned, PM is really not an appropriate person to lead the chapter in requests

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread private musings
'Grant applications are serious, not something that you submit just to engage with a process and there needs to be a properly thought through application with an idea of who, what, when, where and how the proposed project will be run' - totally agree with this- and agree that it's a large stretch t

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread Andrew
I'd like to pitch an idea regarding a possible grant application. One of the interesting things that came up in Berlin (both Sarah and I attended the Outreach Case Studies session where this was discussed) was the Wikiexpedition done by the Polish Wikipedia - I understand the Czechs also undertook

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread Craig Franklin
Well, there's stuff going on. My little "Wikipedia in the Classroom" project has been boiling away pretty nicely (I really ought to update the page on the chapter site about that.), but it's mainly foundation-building stuff that'll let us pull of bigger things in the future. And as for grants,

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread Sarah Ewart
I'm personally not keen on the idea of the wiki-expedition as a grants application. (For informational purposes, according to the Polish chapter reps, the wiki-expedition was originally an Australian idea which they found on Meta, but I'm not sure if the Australians who were discussing the idea eve

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread Sarah Ewart
Craig, please, please, please do write up on the wiki what you've been doing. I think it's very important for the chapter's health to see what members are achieving in their local communities. On 5/5/10, Craig Franklin wrote: > Well, there's stuff going on. My little "Wikipedia in the Classroom"

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread bidgee-wiki
I just signed up to this mail list yesterday (didn't know it had existed until yesterday). I had photographed most of the Top End of the NT but lost 80% (unrecoverable) of my photos during the move down south. When I returned back to NSW my aim was to cover as much cities, suburbs, towns, village

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread Sarah Ewart
You should apply for a small grant for your photography, Bidgee (either to subsidise travel or for the flash you need). On 5/5/10, bidgee-w...@virginbroadband.com.au wrote: > I just signed up to this mail list yesterday (didn't know it had existed > until yesterday). > > I had photographed most o

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread Matt inbgn
Hi Robert, Probably not the place for this but since you have brought the topic up ... I have about 50-60 photos from Temora taken last weekend that are almost ready to upload. Some beautiful churches and public buildings there. These go with the ones from Ariah Park (a very attractive town), Bec

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread Andrew
This all reminds me that I really, really need to go through and upload all my southern Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Mandurah, Geraldton and Bunbury shots going back four years. Amazing how many you collect fully intending to upload to commons and it just never happens for one reason or another. A

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread Andrew
And agreed with Sarah - we'd welcome applications to Wikimedia Australia's own small grants scheme for petrol/travel expenses for individual expeditions for Commons. Only apply if there actually are expenses - my trips to the northern suburbs of Perth cost me nothing but my own time - but these reg

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

2010-05-05 Thread Sarah Ewart
Matt, you should request a small grant for your photography as well. There's more info on the wiki - http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Small_grants On 5/5/10, Matt inbgn wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Probably not the place for this but since you have brought the topic up ... > > I have about 50-60 phot