Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Dhanalakshmi .K. T/Diversity editathons 2019

Application received

Hi, Dhanalakshmi .K. T! Thank you for submitting this rapid grant request. We have received a high volume of requests, which may delay our review. We appreciate your patience and will respond to your request as soon as possible. In the meantime could you please provide the following:

• Please update the budget section of this grant request to include a breakdown of the budget for each event, i.e. what you anticipate spending grant funds on.

Please check this page for additional comments and questions as we review the application and please feel free to reach out to us with questions; we are here to help with a successful grant application! Best regards, LSmith (WMF) (talk) 02:23, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi LSmith (WMF), Thank you for the response. We have given the bifurcation in the Google spreadsheet, linked from the grant request page. The link is below the budget table. So may I know whether you are looking for extra details other than that.--Dhanalakshmi .K. T (talk) 07:44, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Dhanalakshmi .K. T, thank you for the quick response. I appreciate you including the link to the Google spreadsheet but we do need the itemized budget in full in the body of the report, not as a link. Thank you for taking the time to update that when you get the chance. Best regards, LSmith (WMF) (talk) 18:02, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi LSmith (WMF), I have copied the itemized budget details from the Google spreadsheet into the body of the grant request. Please go through and let me know if you need any more info.--Dhanalakshmi .K. T (talk) 16:12, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Dhanalakshmi .K. T, that's perfect, thank you! LSmith (WMF) (talk) 18:51, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Approval

Hello Dhanalakshmi .K. T thank you for organizing this series of diversity editathons. Looking forward to reading the report from these events and learning about the impact. I approving your grant request. Best regards, WJifar (WMF) (talk) 00:11, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Request for extension

This year there was very high rain which lead to heavy flooding in many areas in Karnataka. Many colleges and educations institutes were badly affected due to this. Their academic schedules got disrupted. All our editathons were planned in educational institutes for availability of PC lab with Internet facility. Hence the editathons could not be conducted on the dates originally planned. Some institutes totally opted out due to some other activities which came up suddenly. Hence we re-scheduled the editathons both with respect to dates and venues. So far we have conducted 4 editathons and spent about Rs.54,000 (calculations and details). In the month of Dec 2019, I was suffering from lungs infection. I was out of action almost for a month. I got discharged from hospital few days ago. I am just recovering now. We have planned to organise 4 more editathons in the year 2020. We are also planning to have a competition among the participants of all the editathons and give away some swags from the amount which was budgeted for each editathon. We are expecting to complete all the activities by end of March 2020 and the reports by end of April 2020.--Dhanalakshmi .K. T (talk) 07:52, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Approval of extension

Hello Dhanalakshmi .K. T, thank you for your request. I'm sorry to hear about the floods as well as your personal health challenges. Hope the beginning of the year is kinder to you. I am approving your extension request. Best regards, WJifar (WMF) (talk) 20:12, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Dear Dhanalakshmi .K. T: The final report and expense documentation for your activities will now be due 30 April 2020, or 30 days after the new end date. Thank you. -- Morgan Jue (WMF) (talk) 23:47, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Closing event Wiki20

We have organized altogether 9 editathons. We have some amount left from the grant received, which we want to use it for one more event. On the account of the celebration of Wiki20, we are organizing the closure event in the month of January 2021. We are going to use the money left. We hope this is fine with you. --Dhanalakshmi .K. T (talk) 07:09, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

We are planning to have the Wiki20 event on January 23-24, 2020 provided there is no other unforeseen disruptions like another lockdown. Within a month after the event we should be able to complete the report. The outreach dashboard is here. We had already given the link to the calculations and details spreadsheet earlier above. Hope you had a chance to take a look at it. As you can see we have about INR 25,000 left. --Dhanalakshmi .K. T (talk) 15:26, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

We have filled the risk assessment tool spreadsheet and the same is here.--Dhanalakshmi .K. T (talk) 04:26, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello Dhanalakshmi .K. T, thanks for posting your requests on the discussion page. I reviewed and accepted them all.

• The end date of you project is now extended to January 24, 2021; the reporting due date is February 24, 2021.
• You can reallocate the remaining amount from your project to run an additional event.

Wishing you all the best! Davit Saroyan (WMAM) (talk) 06:19, 4 January 2021 (UTC)