On 29 April 2013 12:32, Craig Franklin <cfrank...@halonetwork.net> wrote:
> I'd like to come back to this - if the entity was told they were eligible > (which certainly looks to be the case from the public documents), when was > it discovered they were not? When the FDC recommendations were published. (see my reply to THO) > Obviously, putting together an FDC > application is a tremendous amount of work for a chapter, and if the effort > was futile from the start, then the time that Deryck and WMHK put into this > could have been better spent on useful programme work instead. > Or, ironically, putting together a reallocation grant. Here's another hen-and-egg problem for you all. We saw little value in settling the remaining funds from the 2010-11 grants because the FDC results will change everything anyway. Ironically the WMF and FDC became convinced that this is a valid reason to retrospectively disqualify us. > > Cheers, > Craig Franklin > > > On 29 April 2013 17:25, Thehelpfulone <thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 29 Apr 2013, at 07:52, Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > > I'm not familiar with the case, but reading that page, it seems that > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:WM_HK/Education_Toolkits_For_Liberal_Studies/Report#Remaining_funds > > > might also have played a role for the FDC's recommendation? > > > > Indeed, yet it looks like there has been no (public) follow up by the > paid > > WMF grants staff for over a month. In addition, > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Hong_KongshowsWMHK > to still be an eligible entity. > > > > Winifred/Asaf, please can you clarify whether WMHK is still an eligible > > entity and what follow up was done after that message a month ago? > > > > --- > > Thehelpfulone > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l