Hi Pine, We are fine with you combining the food costs with other start-up costs for the group in a grant request. However, considering the short timeline, you would not get the funds until after the event. It you would like to submit a request, I would encourage you to do so early this week. Then the GAC/WMF could make a decision by early next week. How many folks do you have signed up already?
Cheers, Alex On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Blibbet <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:23:30 -0800 > "Benj. Mako Hill" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > <quote who="Pine W" date="Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 06:37:37PM -0800"> > > > I sent a reminder to the Seattle TA3M coordinators to ask them if > > > they'd sent an invitation to their members to fill out the form for > > > the December 15 event yet. I'm starting to get a little concerned > > > because about 2.5 weeks away from the event and we still need to > > > get the speakers lined up and the logistics finalized. I am hoping > > > that the TA3M coordinators will send an announcement soon. > > > > Do we need to have speakers? I'd assumed that we wouldn't have speaker > > this time. > > I'm currently unclear about specific plans are TA3M Seattle's end. I > think planner was thinking about one speaker, not sure if it worked > out. The talk about lightning rounds also was brought up by another > planner, unclear about how this is being scheduled (or if it needs to > be). > > I'd be ok if the event had no speakers. I've heard from other TA3M > cities that they have speakerless events and the networking is good. > > I'd be ok if we did some lightning round talks. > > I am not sure if there is any speaker signed up. If Mako is attending, > maybe we can ask him to be backup speaker, if that doesn't happen and > we need a speaker? :-) > > I'll split the food/beverage fees with Pine, so the Wikipedia paperwork > will only be half the size. > -- Alex Wang Program Officer Project & Event Grants Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> +1 415-839-6885 Skype: alexvwang
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