Can I disagree with Andrew's email? This sort of thing's best done collaboratively, rather than coming from a single person, and that's what a wiki's best at.
I've just set up a proposals page at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projects/Proposals Please could people go there to submit ideas, flesh them out and volunteer for things that look interesting? There's a rough template on there for how a proposal should probably look, but there's no formal process involved. If you can't think of anything, then there's plenty of ideas at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projects/Ideas . Mike On 3 Mar 2009, at 21:03, AndrewRT wrote: > On Feb 18, 9:33 am, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The WMF has just announced grants for chapters: "If a chapter has >> work it wants to get done in the furtherance of our overall mission >> and goals during the fiscal year 2009-2010 (July 1, 2009 -June 30, >> 2010), but it cannot do it without financial support, the Wikimedia >> Foundation is inviting that chapter to ask the Wikimedia Foundation >> for funding." >> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/WMF_grants >> >> The deadline for this is 30 March. The value of the grant has to be > >> 500 USD. >> >> Does anyone have any projects in mind that could benefit from such a >> grant? >> >> Mike > > Unfortunately, the Board is pretty busy at the moment organising the > AGM and related matters, so we don't really have the time to organise > anything on this by the deadline. However, if anyone in the community > is interested and able to put together a proposal for a project, we > have some time set aside next Tuesday to consider it. > > All we need is a brief summary covering things like: > > - the benefits of the project > - the funding requirements > - any other sources of funding > - the workload requirements (and who will be fulfilling this!) > - how the project will be organised > - whether its been done in the past and experiences gained > > Please send any proposals to [email protected] > > Thanks! > > Regards, > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
