This may interest some of our community members ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Risker" <risker...@gmail.com> Date: Mar 17, 2017 10:47 Subject: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Hardware donation program To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" < gender...@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc:
This may be of interest to some members of this list. > > Risker/Anne > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> > Date: 17 March 2017 at 01:06 > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Hardware donation program > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Dear Wikimedians, > > The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce a small new program called > the Hardware Donation Program. In a word, it is a program designed to > donate depreciated (but fully working) hardware from the WMF office to > community members who would put it to good use. > > The program, including instructions on how to apply, is described on Meta, > here: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_donation_program > > Please read the information carefully. I especially encourage you to pay > attention to the program's design considerations, which determine most of > the decisions we'll be making. > > We currently have approximately 20 laptops ready to be donated. > Applications are welcome. > > The upcoming Wikimedia Conference in Berlin (in about two weeks) would be > an excellent opportunity to deliver some of those laptops in person to > approved applications, so if you think you might be interested, I'd > encourage you to apply as soon as possible. > > Please also help spread the word about this program, by forwarding this > e-mail to other Wikimedia lists you're on, and posting the link to the > program page on village pumps and *community* (not public) social media > channels or other communication forms you use. > > Special thanks to User:Anntinomy from Wikimedia Ukraine, who had the idea > of asking about possible donation of older machines from WMF, and inspired > this program. > > Mini-FAQ: > > Q: Why are you doing this? > A: WMF's Office IT determines a lifetime for work machines, and regularly > replaces older machines. This creates a stock of older, working machines, > that are available for donation. We can donate them locally to San > Francisco charities, but figure that if we can find low-cost ways to > deliver them to our own community members, that's so much better. > > Q: Am I eligible? > A: Read the fine program documentation. > > Q: If I'm eligible, am I guaranteed a donated laptop? > A: no. > > Q: Once these 20 laptops are donated, will there be others? > A: yes, eventually. > > Q: How can you ensure people would use the machines for Wikimedia purposes? > A: We can't. We'll be making a good-effort assessment of the likelihood of > Wikimedia use, and make a decision to donate (or not) the equipment. Once > donated, the equipment no longer belongs to WMF. We encourage, but can't > enforce, reporting on impact achieved using the equipment. > > Q: I need a few laptops for my event in two weeks! Can I get them through > this program? > A: No. Read the fine program documentation. > > Q: I'm really happy about this! > A: So are we! :) > > Q: I'm really angry about this! > A: So it goes. > > Q: I have more questions! > A: Hit 'Reply'. :) > > Cheers, > > Asaf > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > gender...@lists.wikimedia.org > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > _______________________________________________ WikiTe-L mailing list WikiTe-L@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikite-l
