From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com>
To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 13:12
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Should we join in the Foundation grants scheme?
On 1 November 2011 12:48, Chris Keating <
chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Foundation, and Wikimedia Deutschland, have set
up a "participation
> grants" initiative to fund people going places to do things in the Wikimedia
> movement. We've already identified giving travel grants of this nature as
> something we should do in 2012. We've been invited to take part and commit a
> sum of money towards it, but aren't sure whether we should or not.
If we want to fund our own choices of global activities, or give
grants for UK activities (or UK residents doing things overseas), then
we should do so directly. If we want to fund global activities without
deciding for ourselves, then we should just include the money in our
donation to the WMF and let them get on with it.
As I've mentioned in the discussion on internal-l, this new scheme
seems very confused in terms of what the roles of chapters and the WMF
are.
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