Grants:IEG/Committee/Resources

Preparing for review

• Familiarize yourself with the review process & timelines
• Understand friendly space expectations (and remember to be respectful, encouraging, and patient when giving feedback)
• Join one or more working groups
• Browse eligible ("open") proposals
• add your resource here

Scoring resources

• Determine project eligibility
  • Note: new changes to eligibility criteria starting round 2, 2015: "Technical projects should be completed independently. Development of templates, gadgets, bots, and standalone applications are welcome. Software projects requiring code review and integration must demonstrate commitment from the related maintainers."
• Use the handy rubric (evaluate project selection criteria)
• Check for alignment with WMF strategic priorities (through 2015):
  • Stabilize infrastructure
  • Increase participation
  • Improve quality
  • Increase reach
  • Encourage innovation
• add your resource here

Additional resources for background research while scoring

• The Learning Patterns Library includes many entries related to evaluations and reporting, for example Achievable goals
• Wikimedia Tool Labs lists many tools that may prove useful to proposal review and scoring, including Global user contributions. For getting a sense of the size of different language communities and projects, check out Vital Signs
• add your resource here

Scheduling meetings

• World Clock Meeting Planner and Are We Meeting Yet? for time zone support
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