Hi All,
I sense the budget is little beyond the line. I understand the tentative events
planned will mean an aggressive growth plan, but do we have the resources to
handle it?
More so, can someone explain the status of our FCRA and how exactly is the fund
routed into our account? An amount of this magnitude will need a reflection of
our previous spend/ failing which we will attract unnecessary scrutiny. This
will mean we will need to have full-time support staff - additional expense.
For Wikimania, I support and wish to see a transparent call for interests and a
due process for selection of travel/scholarship awards: more Indian
representation at Wikimania is worthy and called for. For a national
conference/4 regional conferences - I understand it will be an overstretch, it
is best to have a single conference, through rotation in different cities every
year to ensure good participation in the long run. Most of the attendees are
volunteers, 5 conferences in total is a bit heavy on schedule.
- Abhijith Jayanthi
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From: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Wikimedia Members List <wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review
Request
There is a very serious amount of money being spent on bureaucratic necessities
& indeed very little on community activities.
For example, why do 6 people need to go for Wikimania & Chapters conference?
You have asked for money for 3 regional & 1 national conference. Does anyone
actually believe that the Chapter has the wherewithal to organise/conduct 4
conferences in a year? Add to that x number of academies & one devcamp. Plus a
whopping Rs 6 lakhs for Wiki Loves India/Monuments.
There are also a huge grey areas - Event Participation, Unspecified general
events.
The amt 150,000 $ is not at all small. This is an extravagant budget and needs
pruning down in the issues mentioned above & more allocation to activities &
communities. My suggestion is to keep it much smaller but doable. Such huge
amts demanded without any clear cut idea of whats to happen will only lead to
non-utilisation at best & misuse at worst. Dont bite off more than you can chew!
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote:
Karthik,
>
>Except for allocation for Innovative projects, GLAM acdtivities and
>Digitisation (Budget items 3.5.1, 3.5.4, 3.5.5), I don't see any other budget
>item that directly sustains any measurable impact on the growth of language
>communities. Even this fund allocation will prove miniscule when distributed
>for all the language communities.
>
>I strongly recommend to extend the budget proposal to make use of the full
>$200,000 that you proposed in your letter of intent and allocate a good budget
>for language communities and special interest groups.
>
>
>Please also see my feedback at
>
>http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget#Funding_allocation_for_language_communities_and_SIGs
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ravi
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