If wishes were fishes and all that. Still, it's July now; could budgets not get approved before January?
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Florence Devouard <anthe...@yahoo.com>wrote: > On 7/21/10 1:37 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > > The attendance of French Wikipedians was certainly high; I travelled > through > > to Gdansk with five or six (the "Why France/Britain sucks" conversations" > > were amusing). I think it's an excellent idea for individual chapters to > > distribute scholarships, but yes, there is a time element involved. I > guess > > it isn't even necessarily needed for the Chapter scholarships to be > issued > > afterwards; merely at a different time. Maybe before would work? That way > > you'd avoid the problem of not distributing all of it. > > It would also help if budget was approved at the beginning of the year > so that it would be "visible" as early as January that money is left > aside for such a use later in the year (it could also be mentionned > during general assembly for example). > > Alas... > > Well, every year brings new improvements ;) > > Ant > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner< > > christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noein<prono...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>> Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>> On 21/07/2010 01:57, Florence Devouard wrote: > >>>> This decision was approved on the 24th of may and was advertised in > >>>> various (french speaking) venues. The scholarship only proposed two > >>>> different types of packages: 250 euros or 500 euros. > >>>> There was no requirement of nationality or location, though we would > >>>> probably have focused on French participants. A commission was > receiving > >>>> the scholarship requests and approving them. > >>>> Scholars had two main obligations : > >>>> - actually being at the conference :) > >>>> - report after the conference > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> In spite of sufficient time, not all scholarships were distributed, > >>>> which is quite unfortunate. However, the number of French participants > >>>> had never been as high in a Wikimania. > >>> > >>> Out of curiosity, would contacting the french-speaking registered users > >>> of en. and fr. wikipedia have been a good advertisement strategy? > >> > >> We advertised it on the french Wikipedia of course, and on every > >> french wikimedia project iirc. As long as on our blog and through > >> social media. > >> > >> Christophe > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> foundation-l mailing list > >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l