Sorry meant to say every second month, to be honest as mentors we should be
doing it to help others grow and help the movement grow not for the stipend
anyway

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 20:00, Gnangarra <gnanga...@gmail.com> wrote:

> stipends aren't meant to cover every cost for the volunteer, its an
> acknowledgement that as volunteers we do incur costs we can always choose
> not to contribute. $200 a month yeah thats nice when your in the US, EU or
> AU for other less well off countries it does make a difference for them.
> It'd be unfair to offer a stipend to be varied between countries because
> it'd encourage and entrench bias, and inequity across the movement.
>
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 19:44, Lane Chance <zinkl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's worth highlighting the stipend (presumably intended for otherwise
>> unpaid volunteers who are not full-time employees of the WMF). It's
>> $200 for "each 2 months" and covers costs of "childcare, internet,
>> transportation and other costs that make volunteering possible".
>>
>> The commitment is to give *5 hours a week* for a 1 year period, so
>> $100/month is approximately $5 an hour in costs. A rock bottom rate
>> for a babysitter in the USA would be $10/hour. If you need to travel
>> to a quiet workspace, like a friendly and entirely free library or
>> Uni, to do the work or find a cubical to join a Zoom meeting, then the
>> cost of transport is likely to again going to start at $10 and if you
>> need to buy a take-away to replace time preparing an evening meal
>> that's going to be $20 for something basic. Some countries in Europe
>> have government-supported childcare, but even these may not be free
>> but subsidized.
>>
>> It would be interesting to see more analysis of how volunteer stipends
>> are normalised if these are becoming more common in WMF grants and
>> project funding, and how they are intended to vary based on the
>> standard cost of living in different countries, additional real-life
>> receipted costs or what other circumstances will justify increasing
>> the non-receipted stipend. If this has been done behind the scenes by
>> the WMF, it would be useful to publish it to inform future projects.
>>
>> Lane
>>
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