Hey everyone, I discussed this with the Wikimania 2012 team, and they will use the results from this questionnaire to hand out the scholarships next year.
So, help us out: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG1BaUJHZkpJS2puSHJuTGN0Sk9NcHc6MQ (reminder) Grtz, Maarten 2011/8/18 Itzik Edri <[email protected]> > wow. 1700$ from D.C to Israel? from my experience, the prices suppose to be > more like 1300-1500$~.... > > Itzik > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:17 PM, James Hare <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Aug 18, 2011, at 2:43 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > The big advantage of fixed sums is that you don't have to bother about >> > people choosing the cheapest/most sensible flight, accommodation and so >> > on, which is almost impossible to do; but then you have to choose a >> > sensible amount making some calculations before. >> > The requirement to do so is having serious statistics on the costs faced >> > by the attendees; this implies very complex surveys in university >> > systems, but should be easier for us, we don't need to be as efficient >> > as the Studentenwerk (although I don't get how the linked questionnaire >> > can help for the next Wikimania[1]). >> > Then you have to decide what share of the estimated cost you want to >> > cover: if it's too low the incentive in null (only people who would have >> > attended anyway get the scholarship) and the money is wasted, if it's >> > too high the effectiveness decreases because you have less recipients >> > and because we don't have a way to measure the commitment and results >> > (so an unknown amount of money will be wasted). >> > So far the amount of partial scholarships has been chosen to be good for >> > most attendees to maximize participation, but we could also decide to >> > keep the share more or less the same for everyone and give different >> > (fixed) amounts to different areas of the world, if we think that >> > everyone should have the same incentive no matter the cost. I'm not so >> > sure of that: perhaps it's more effective to maximize the participation >> > of "locals" and for Wikiania 2012 it's better to give 2-3 (partial) >> > scholarships to wikimedians from Mexico (or a far USA state) than 1 to a >> > wikimedian from Europe (random examples). >> > >> > Nemo >> > >> > [1] And for Wikimania 2011, it would be more interesting to know an >> > objective piece of information such as the number of partial scholarship >> > recipients who refused it because it wasn't enough. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimania-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> Here's a thought. In the United States when you apply for a student loan >> from the government, you put down how much money you'll be able to >> contribute yourself. They then decide how much to give based on how much you >> say you can contribute. >> >> Say I was awarded a partial scholarship to Israel. The cost of my flight >> was $1700, but I would have been able to contribute $300. Then, assuming the >> most generosity, I would have been awarded $1400. >> >> James Hare >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >
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