Wikimania 2021/Scholarships/Les sans pagEs
Applications are not required to be in English. Please complete the application in your preferred language.
Note: Wikimania 2021 scholarship applicants must be Wikimedia movement affiliates. Individuals and other organizations are not eligible.
Project Plan
[edit]Activities
[edit]What Wikimedia movement affiliate do you represent?
- Les sans pagEs UserGroup
What needs are you requesting funding for to support your community’s participation at Wikimania?
Please review following eligible activities and expenses below, and write below any that will be included in your activities.
- Childcare services (or similar family services) to support Wikimania participation
- Data packages to distribute to Wikimania participants
- Administrative or operational costs for to distribute funds to community members, such as transfer fees
- Small hardware expenses to support access (such as webcams, microphones, head/earphones)
- Note: Requests for computers, laptops, tablets, and other personal devices are not eligible.
- Translation services for a Wikimania session
- Video production support for pre-recorded Wikimania sessions (such as equipment or space)
- In-person meetups that coincide with Wikimania activities (food, beverage, meeting space)
- 1 Post-Wikimania meetup to report and summarize highlights of Wikimania and provide curated links to presentations relevant to the group (food, beverage, meeting space)
- Childcare services (or similar family services) to support Wikimania participation
- Data packages to distribute to Wikimania participants
- Administrative or operational costs for to distribute funds to community members, such as transfer fees
- Post-Wikimania meetups resulting from having attended Wikimania (food, beverage, meeting space)
If you are requesting more than 1000 USD to distribute to your community, please provide additional detail on how you will distribute these funds.
Please provide a summary explaining the following:
- how you will invite community members to apply for funding,
- the criteria you will use to determine eligibility, and
- the processes or services you will use to distribute funds.
This description does not need to be comprehensive, but should generally explain the process for how community members will receive funds or support to participate in Wikimania. For support on eligibility criteria, feel free to review this reviewer's guide for previous Wikimania scholarship programs.
If you are not distributing funds to community members, please write N/A below.
- how you will invite community members to apply for funding: it will be communicated on the project mailing list, on the usergroup telegram channel, and on on the project talk page
- the criteria you will use to determine eligibility: We will consider requests with the specific following criterias in mind
- Is the applicant an involved member of the les sans pagEs community?
- Is the applicant involved in other initiatives to fight the gender gap which do not propose Wikimania scholarships?
- Is the applicant applying for funds for relevant expenses?
- Is the applicant applying for a reasonable amount of funds for their region?
- Is the applicant from a region with less support from Wikimedia Chapters and UserGroups?
- the processes or services you will use to distribute funds: We have drafted a communication message to our community with a process to apply for funds and explain what they need the funding for. We'll then use the above criterias to assess available funds and then distribute accordingly.
Outcomes
[edit]Please provide a range or estimate for the number of participants the funding will support.
It is OK if this is estimate is based on limited information, but we want to have an idea of how your activities will support community participation in Wikimania.
Some examples:
- 3-5 participants will receive childcare support to support their participation at Wikimania.
- 10 participants will receive hardware support
- 1-2 post-Wikimania meetups will be funded
- 10-20 participants will receive data packages to support their participation at Wikimania
- 2-4 participants will receive childcare support to support their participation at Wikimania.
- 10 participants will receive data packages support
- 1 post-Wikimania meetups will be funded
Budget
[edit]How you will use the funds you are requesting? Please use the following categories for your expenses. Don’t forget to include a total amount, and update this amount in the Probox at the top of your page too!
- Childcare services (or similar family services)
- Data packages to distribute to Wikimania participants
- In addition to a total budget, please indicate the average data cost per person who will receive funds for this need.
- Administrative or operational costs for distributing funds
- Small hardware expenses to support access
- Translation services for a Wikimania session
- Video production support
- Meetups during or after Wikimania activities (food, beverage, meeting space)
- We are making funding requests available in amounts between 50 CHF and 300 CHF, totaling 1100 CHF (data and childcare).
- Administrative and operational costs, 200 CHF
- Post-event co-funding : 550 CHF
Total budget : 1850 CHF (more or less 2000 USD)
Completing your application
[edit]Once you have completed the application, please do the following:
- Change the application status from
status=drafttostatus=proposedin the {{Probox}} template. - Contact communityevents@wikimedia.org and rapidgrants@wikimedia.org to confirm your submission, as well as to request any support around your application.