[Foundation-l] Re: foundation-l Digest, Vol 13, Issue 17

Sat Apr 16 21:30:10 UTC 2005

Jeandré proposed on meta that Wikijunior pursue funding from the Shuttleworth Foundation (http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org) for a Wikijunior Afrikaans print edition, to complement the English edition funded by the Beck Foundation.

According to the Shuttleworth site:
"We invest in projects which offer unique and innovative, albeit high-risk, solutions to educational challenges in an African society, focussing on the areas of Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship and Maths (STEM) in education and open source software."

This may limit us primarily to our "A World of Innovation" issues, but nevertheless gets our foot in the South African door.

The Foundation actually runs their own wiki to record information about their projects (http://wiki.tsf.org.za/shuttleworthfoundationwiki).

So, who is in charge of applying for grants? I want to work with them to pursue this possibility.

- Nick Moreau/Zanimum

PS Anyone interested in what the Wikibooks sub-project will be named, I'm trying to narrow the name game down by 6 possibilities every week, allowing people a chance to "save" a name before its retired from the running.

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