Only before May? The new grants system is rigged in a way we might have to move heaven and earth to get approval?
Unless there's a reason I don't know, perhaps it doesn't need to be before May, but can be applied anytime this year, if only the plan is to do the event next year. On 13 Mar 2016 12:41 am, "Florence Devouard" <anth...@anthere.org> wrote: > Le 13/03/16 00:40, shola ishola a écrit : > > Dear Colleagues, > > Apologies for my epistles > Dear Asaf, > > Thank you for your points and for the links. > > Kindly note that you quoted my mail out of context by saying that *I am > being alienated and de motivated because I didn't receive scholarship*. > It's not about "Olaniyan" but about the gross denial of many groups in > Africa, the opportunity of exposure to new knowledge and information that > Wikimania offer to share. Just like you and I know that, Wikimedia is > about community development and no community can develop without an > effective execution of projects. Now tell me, if you chose just 4 > applicants in Africa, how do you want other communities that were not > represented to learn from the products/outcomes of the event?. Also, if you > believed that Wikimedia is about free sharing of knowledge and information, > how can communities and individual from the alienated groups share their > project with the larger community of Wikimedians? > > I want us to read and digest an extract from Wikimania mailing list on > some of the questions raised on issues relating to the selection of > applicants for wikimania scholarship below: > > > > > > > *"Olatunde raises a significant issue in that call for communities to > participate in the community village is demoralising if communities dont > have the opportunity to attend the event which is suppose to be bringing > everyone together. We have the underlying principle of sharing the sum of > all knowledge, if we dont do it internally then we cant do it successfully > externally. As for the response the process for Wikimania has been changed, > in Mexico last year a decision was taken with many communities unaware and > excluded from the discussion because they didnt have anyone there. With > Wikmania being every 2 years its becomes more significant that all > communities have representatives attend every wikimania otherwise it ends > up isolating communities for 4 years from the whole of the movement. The > scholarship process is also broken and its needs to be discussed it needs > to be reconsidered to allow for the changes” Submitted by Gnangarra. * > It seems some of us are comfortable with our minority role in the > movement… and if we continue this way, I wonder what would be the future of > the movement in the continent. > > Great thanks to Isla and Florence and others for their roles on the > continent, by providing direction through the introduction of sustainable > platform for collaboration and sharing of knowledge among the various > communities in Africa. Even with this on hand, we still need a larger forum > where all the communities and volunteers who align with our movement can > come together to express themselves year in year out. > > Now that no one knows the fate of Wikiindaba and Wikimania is out of > reach. What next? > > Submitted. > > Olaniyan Olushola > Director, WUGN > Treasurer, FOSSFA > MD, Olbims Consulting > Phone: +2348154876844 > Email: olaniyanshol...@gmail.com > Email: olaniyansh...@yahoo.com > Email:treasu...@fossfa.net > User page: Olaniyan Olushola > Facebook: Olaniyan Shola > Twitter :Olaniyan73 > > > > No one knows the fate of Wikiindaba ??? > > The fate of WikiIndaba is in your hands. Our hands. > > It needs a place. It needs a program. It needs a budget. And it needs a > PEG grant to be asked for before the end of May. > It is quite a bit of work. But that is perfectly feasible. > > Flo > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > >
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