Hi all, This is for your information, that we have submitted the rapid grant report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group few hours back. The grant was requested to conduct the user group activities for a whole year.
The grant proposal is here - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/WBG/Annual_Plan_2019-20 The report is here - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/WBG/Annual_Plan_2019-20/Report We have spent just around 1 lakh 8 thousand rupees for our whole year activity and we still have around Rs. 33,000 with us which are still not spent due to various reasons. We have requested rapid grants team to use that money for our future activities. This year, before asking for rapid grants, we asked the community members to come up with the projects, which they want to execute and need support. It was a bottom-up decentralized approach in a mini-scale and we can say, it went well. We learned a lot while exploring this approach and we will try to make it better next time. The user group has been working on documenting under-represented and previously undocumented cultural and structural heritage for last 3 years in an organized way. This year, our major spending was around Rs. 70,000 to document around 272 heritage structures in 5 districts of West Bengal through our Wiki Exploration Program. Other than that, we have spent money on 1 Wiki Takes, 1 Documenting City Heritage, 5 meetups including AGM of the user group, 1 workshop, 1 unofficial GLAM and content donation of 1 author. Prizes for Rabindranath Month Proofreading Contest on Bengali Wikisource and Wiki Loves Monuments were taken care by CIS-A2K, so that didn't came under Rapid Grant. This year, we couldn't work on documenting museums, for next year there are plans already. Like before, we have tried to do effective projects optimally with our limited resources. The user group was very meticulous in planning the projects keeping in mind about the value of donation money, involving community members of the West Bengal who actively participated in every steps. Needless to say, as always, we didn't compromise on participant safety and comfort, without over-spending a single rupee for luxury. We have also maintained utmost transparency, as previous years. Our on-wiki event pages have a section on financial reports with detailed budget breakdown. Regards, Bodhisattwa West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
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