Making a bunch of unsupported and mostly unrelated accusations of bad faith is usually not a great way of raising support for your grant request. Long rants about how more money would be needed without even a hint of what that money would be used for are also unhelpful. I recommend letting this thread die and then starting a fresh one about the mission impact of the Wikidata conference and how it could be raised by a larger budget.
I would also recommend talking with the other organizers first, as right now it is unclear whether you are complaining about the WMF not willing to give a larger grant or about the organizers not feeling the need for one. (FWIW the WikidataCon budget is ~75.000 EUR, planned to be supported by a 36.000 EUR WMF grant and a 40.000 EUR WMDE grant.) On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:52 PM, David Cuenca Tudela <dacu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Recently the review for the Wikidata conference grant application has > started, and I have complained that the funds allocated are insuficient to > cover the needs of the grants. The requested amount for the grants was > 36,000 EUR, but in my opinion that should be at least 72,000 EUR. > > I have the feeling that the WMF is sitting on a pile of money just giving > breadcrumbs to the community, and the community has to suffer in silence > about this stinginess. > What can we do as a community to request with a clear voice the funds that > we need? > > Why are there two standards? One standard seems to be that everything that > the WMF needs to allocate can go unsupervised, whereas another standard > seems to apply to community activities where every penny is so supervised > that it becomes a pain in the ass to organize anything big. > > The Wikidata Conference needs more funds to be a success and I think that > in the grand scheme of things, the money requested is just peanuts compared > to the money that the WMF has collected from donors. > > If things have to be done well, then the community has every right to claim > the money from the donors. The WMF has no right to appropriate that money > and use it as a hammer to sabotage events that could have a real impact > like the Wikidata Conference. > > I request that the amount of funds allocated for grants to be increased > from 36,000 eur to 72,000 eur, and this is an informed request that I > perform both as a community member and as a member of the Wikidata > Conference Grants Committee. > > The link to my complaint can be found here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Conference/ > WMDE/WikidataCon#Complaint_about_this_grant_application > > The link to the Wikidata Conference Grants Commitee can be found here: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/ > Volunteer/Scholarships_committee > > I hope to have some feedback about this complaint. Thank you, > Micru > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
