Hello Fae, Thank you for sharing your experience with micro-grants and offering an experimental and responsive procedure. It's definitely a good model to consider. As we enter our planning year for the strategic direction our team will be soliciting ideas from the community and looking at different approaches. I will be sure to keep your suggestion in this consideration as we move forward.
Best regards, Woubzena Woubzena Jifar Program Officer Rapid Grants Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> User: WJifar (WMF) On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 May 2018 at 17:53, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2018-05-02 1:51 GMT+03:00 Woubzena Jifar <wji...@wikimedia.org>: > >> 3. On your third point of having the 1st - 15th of the month be an open > >> application time, this is also an experiment. We hope that this focused, > >> clear timeline will allow us to respond more quickly and help community > >> members understand the state of their application more easily. > > > > Woubzena, there used to be a time when the promise of the Rapid grants > > was that they would be reviewed weekly. I understand this is no longer > > possible, even if the wording is still present on meta. Does the new > > rule imply a promise from the WMF that the grants will be granted or > > refused withing the same calendar month? > > > > Regards, > > Strainu > > On being experimental and responsive, it would be cool to bring back > some of the trust in grass roots volunteers, and consider funding a > system of very light-weight global microgrants using an open request > process on meta. Microgrants under $250, perhaps with a network of > long term identified local volunteers taking responsibility for > assessing that the money got spent on the right stuff, would be jolly > nice. Enough to pay for bits and bobs of travel expenses, software, > minor bits of hardware like accessibility or experimental kit. > > The community has discussed this before, in fact the UK used to have a > productive micro-grant procedure, which I think has been abandoned for > staff managed grants. In terms of trust, I recall going to Amsterdam > to coordinate a GLAM related event with a cash wad of a dozen people's > expenses in my pocket. It felt very informal, but a great > demonstration of trust that volunteers could sort out their own checks > and balances. My main headache was ensuring that everyone got the > money as quickly as possible, so it was out of my wallet! > > Any thoughts on lobbying for a tiny global budget to spend on a 100% > volunteer social and open simpleminded process, outside of any > Affiliates structure, with zero employee time needed to run it? > > Fae > -- > fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
