Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

2013-09-24 Thread Ashwin Baindur
There is a very serious amount of money being spent on bureaucratic necessities indeed very little on community activities. For example, why do 6 people need to go for Wikimania Chapters conference? You have asked for money for 3 regional 1 national conference. Does anyone actually believe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

2013-09-24 Thread Abhijith Jayanthi
Cc: Wikimedia Members List wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request There is a very serious amount of money being spent on bureaucratic necessities indeed very little

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

2013-09-24 Thread Pranav Curumsey
I am responding here this once, from now ahead please post your comments on the chapter wiki so we dont spam peoples inboxes. Abhijith, I think I answer most of your points here. The one about FCRA, we have prior permission upto $100k. Next Jan we complete 3 years and we can apply for a prior

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

2013-09-23 Thread Karthik Nadar
Dear Members and Community, In the last few days many of you have given your valuable feedback and suggestions on our FDC proposal. We sincerely thank everyone for their input. We have tried to build a balanced proposal keeping everyones requirements in mind. This has been a particularly tough

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

2013-09-23 Thread Ravishankar
Karthik, Except for allocation for Innovative projects, GLAM acdtivities and Digitisation (Budget items 3.5.1, 3.5.4, 3.5.5), I don't see any other budget item that directly sustains any measurable impact on the growth of language communities. Even this fund allocation will prove miniscule when