Grants talk:TPS/Daniel Mietchen/Open Science, Open Issues

Contextualizing this request

Ni!

This request is for Daniel to attend the second national conference held by the Brazilian Open Science Working Group. Last year, the working group organized its first conference with participants from several states throughout Brazil thanks to Wikimedia projects funding.

That previous meeting was enough of a success and reverberated in a way that, already this year, we've managed to grow significantly in scale while also securing the (now larger) resources and operational funding needed from scientific institutions, avoiding a second request to Wikimedia.

We're very happy to have achieved that, first because there's proportionally much more funding available for science than free knowledge, so any free knowledge initiative that has scientific relevance should seek to rely mostly on science funding, and second because scientific institutions need to start owning the idea of free knowledge for real change to happen, and paying for it is a good way to flex those muscles.

At the same time, we're also trying to share the weight of travel costs with other interested sponsors so we can bring an even more diverse mix to the event, and would be once again very thankful if Wikimedia could subsidize Daniel's trip.

Cheers!

--Solstag (talk) 11:47, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments, Solstag. We appreciate it, and it's fantastic to hear how successful the first meeting was! Best wishes to even greater results this year. -- Jtud (WMF) (talk) 22:49, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Question about your request

Dear Daniel Mietchen: Thank you for your submission. We had one question. Is your participation on behalf of your work with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin? Your talk on Thursday noted your museum affiliation. It was unclear if your participation at the conference is a work-related activity as a representative of the museum. -- Sincerely , Jtud (WMF) (talk) 22:49, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi Janice, I am participating solely as a volunteer, partly with a Wikimedia hat, partly with an OKF one. It is, however, customary in academic events to provide one's official affiliations, rather than volunteer ones. My current work at the museum is about semantic integration of biodiversity literature. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 00:33, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Just to add to what Daniel already said, since it was me who included his affiliation like that. We want the seminar participants, who'll be mostly academics, to feel that what is being presented belongs to their world and is within their reach and even their duty. Presenting Daniel as a peer, with his academic affiliation, contributes to that. Presenting him as, or in addition as, a "wikimedia volunteer", a position alien to most academics, would in my opinion detract from this correspondence. Abraço, --Solstag (talk) 05:39, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Dear Solstag, Thank you for a very helpful explanation. Once again, we appreciate the input. Sincerely, Jtud (WMF) (talk) 02:09, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Request funded

Dear Daniel Mietchen: Your request is funded! Thank you for your reply and clarification. We also wanted to clarify that although your third (Thursday) talk is somewhat out of scope for this grant program, your first and second Tuesday workshops are mission-aligned (with the second one being the most mission-aligned). We appreciate your having multiple engagements, but we are funding your request primarily for your “Wikimedia projects as platforms for Open Science” workshop. Therefore, we are requesting a focused report on this workshop after the event, during the reporting period.

We will contact you via email about issuing your grant agreement. Thank you again for your submission! Sincerely, Jtud (WMF) (talk) 02:09, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you - I will follow up via email. With greetings from OKFest, -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 05:31, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

=D ! --Solstag (talk) 23:15, 18 July 2014 (UTC)