Grants talk:TPS/DonSimon/Wiki-conference 2016 (Kiev)

Feedback about request

Dear DonSimon,

Thank you for submitting your requests to TPS to participate in Wiki-conference 2016 in Kiev. We appreciate your interest in this event.

In general, TPS funds users to participate in non-Wikimedia events only. There are exceptions to this rule when it's not possible for the hosts of the Wikimedia event to provide travel funding, but we still like to leave the decision in the hands of the event hosts. In this case Wikimedia Ukraine cannot send funds outside of the Ukraine, so we will review these requests through TPS. We've written to Wikimedia Ukraine to get their feedback on your proposals.

We'll be in touch soon with more information

Kind regards,

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 21:57, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Request partially funded

Dear DonSimon,

We have heard back from Wikimedia Ukraine, and we are happy to fund your international travel and tax costs, for a total of $178 USD. This will supplement the scholarship that we understand that Wikimedia Ukraine is willing to award you for your meals and accommodation. As stated above, we typically avoid funding requests through TPS for Wikimedia events. However, we are supplementing the scholarships awarded by Wikimedia Ukraine, per User:Antanana, because Ukraine does not allow funds to be sent outside the country.

Please review the next steps for your grant as described in "How the program works". Note that your post-event report must provide a link to an outcome from your participation. We recommend that you start planning your outcome now so you are prepared to submit it as part of your report, which is due 14 days after the event.

As communicated in the link above, an outcome does not include the materials you prepare to present at the event (though we’d like you to link to those, too), but something that is created during or after the event because of your participation, such as a link to something new that was co-created by you and your fellow participants at the event, a blog post you wrote to share your experience with others after the event, or a learning pattern to teach others something you've learned at the event. If you choose to make a learning pattern, think creatively about what you learned. Did you address a target audience about whom you have special expertise (for example, a physicist presenting at a conference for physicists about how to use Wikipedia)? Your learning pattern might focus on a strategy you employed that was successful in engaging that specific audience in our projects.

Our Grants Administrator will be in touch with you about your grant. Thank you for work on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Warm regards, --Marti (WMF) (talk) 17:33, 31 August 2016 (UTC)