In my point of view a team to coordinate the grant (and to control budget) would be really welcome.
I would stress that for PEG/GAC team and staff the workload is multiplied for 100 because every country participating in the contest is eligible to apply for a grant. In my opinion more tasks assigned to this team (like for instance the gadgeting) would help to cut off the costs of every national contest, to rationalize and to coordinate centrally some tasks and to look for better price and to reduce the time of evaluation per single budget. And naturally to help the PEG/GAC committee to have lighter proposal to be evaluated (and it means the reduction of time to evaluate). What I can suggest is the creation of a larger team with two different section: one more organizational and a second one more administrative. Probably a call done in the same PEG committee would help to recruit someone that would participate in the second group of this bigger team. Regards On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Karthik Nadar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marteen, > > I understand how difficult and tiring is the grant process and then the > reporting. Lodewijk, me and Cristian have gone through this in 2013 and I > also believe you had gone through this in 2012 and it killed all of us; or > atleast I can talk for myself. > > Still, I don't believe if we will need a different team just for grant; > maybe what we can do is we can have a little more team members and we can > have 4-5 members exclusively focused on grant and reporting and then at > other fronts. > > > Yan, > > 10 members team will be exactly as I had said earlier; too many cooks will > spoil the food. May be we can look at 7 members team. 2013 international > team were perfect; yes it was challenging though (again I'm talking for > myself; others may have different persoonal opinion). > > > > > Regards from Mumbai, > Karthik Nadar. > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> Alex Wang schreef op 30-12-2014 om 20:33: >> >> Please also note that last year PEG funded 7 WLM grants (+1 to the >> international team). The earliest request was made in June and the last in >> mid-September. Next year, we will recommend that national requests come in >> by early July, and will be communicating this as well as other tips on >> national WLM grant requests, over the next couple of months. >> >> You're kidding right? That's much too late. The fact that this year the >> organization was chaotic and everyone was too late doesn't mean it should >> happen like that every year. See >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline >> for a proper timeline . You should encourage teams to have a proper >> planning so they can achieve excellent results instead of hurried just in >> time results. >> >> Maarten >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ilario> Skype: valdelli Facebook: Ilario Valdelli <https://www.facebook.com/ivaldelli> Twitter: Ilario Valdelli <https://twitter.com/ilariovaldelli> Linkedin: Ilario Valdelli <http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6724469> Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch
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