For me, the merit of partial scholarships (except for costing less for the WMF and thus enabling more people to participate) is that the extra money one has to pay form their own pocket serves as a sign of seriousness and commitment on their part.
If the partial scholarships could somehow be defined, for example, to be 75% of the average flight cost from one's home to the conference, then those extra 25% (which could be USD 50 or USD 500....) will show one's seriousness. Maybe this is a better and fairer way to calculate the partial scholarships than the EUR 300 sum we had this year. Harel On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 23:53, aude <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Lodewijk <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The current setup does not seem to target non-attendees if I read the >> questions - none the less one of the querstions does give it as an option... >> *confused* > > > I think you can put the estimated cost of the flight, and still answer "no" > I did not attend Wikimania 2011. > > To answer Casey's question, the survey is unofficial and not covered by WMF > or WikiDC privacy policies. > > Anecdotally, I've heard feedback that the partial scholarships didn't work > so great for everyone, and would be happy for more feedback/suggestions. > But answer the survey, knowing it's not covered by our privacy policies but > if you trust Maarten... (I do) > > Cheers, > Katie > > > But, I trust Maarten that > > > > >> >> >> 2011/8/17 aude <[email protected]> >> >>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:27 PM, maarten deneckere < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey, >>>> >>>> On the Wikimania >>>> wiki<http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback#Scholarships>we have >>>> some discussions on the best way to organize the "partial >>>> scholarships". We want to prevent that people from countries far away from >>>> the venue (Australia, Canada, thirld world countries, ...) stay home >>>> because >>>> the partial scholarship does not help them enough. We don't want them all >>>> to >>>> request a full scholarship, either. >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for looking into these questions. I'm very interested in feedback >>> on how we might make the scholarships work better next time. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Katie >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Please help us for the next conference, and fill in the questionnaire on >>>> >>>> https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG1BaUJHZkpJS2puSHJuTGN0Sk9NcHc6MQ >>>> >>>> Everybody can fill in this form (even if you didn't attend, or didn't >>>> find funding), so send this to everybody that wanted to come! >>>> >>>> Grtz, >>>> Maarten >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> President, Wiki Society of Washington, DC Inc. >>> http://wikidc.org >>> @wikidc / @wikimania2012 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > > > -- > President, Wiki Society of Washington, DC Inc. > http://wikidc.org > @wikidc / @wikimania2012 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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