Grants:IEG/Improve 'Upload to Commons' Android App/Finances

This project is funded by an Individual Engagement Grant

This Individual Engagement Grant is renewed

Budget

Below is your approved budget. Please use this table to keep track of actual funds spent for each line item and list the difference from the approved budget at the end of the grant period.

Expense	Approved amount	Actual funds spent	Difference
Developer salary for Phase 1	1200 USD	1200 USD	0
Developer salary for Phase 2	6000 USD (after budget change request)	6000 USD	0
Developer salary for Phase 3	1200 USD	1200 USD	0
Total	8400 USD	8400 USD	0

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Budget change request

I would like to add 40 hours (2 weeks) to the project, in order to work on 2 extra tasks (updating licenses to achieve parity with Upload Wizard, and improving license selection in the app) before moving on to the publicity phase (rationale below).

Budget change: 15 USD/hr * 40 = +600 USD
Line item: Developer salary for Phase 2

Rationale

There are 2 main issues with license selection in the app currently:

Licenses have not been updated to include all the license options offered by the Upload Wizard. We need to add CC-BY-SA 4.0 and CC-BY 4.0. (see #144)
Selection of licenses needs to be made more explicit. Currently, license selection can only be modified by going to the Settings page and selecting the license there. Improvements on this has been requested by many users, on our Google Play reviews, on Commons threads and also on GitHub, and it is important that users are made aware of which license they are uploading their photo under. There are a few options for implementation that we are currently discussing at #323, but the implementation timeframe should be roughly equal for any of the choices.

I was initially intending to wait and include this in the renewal proposal, but as I started making preparations for Phase 3 (publicity phase) I realized that it is not a good idea to publicize the app without first solving this issue.

Approved

I'm approving this request for an additional $600 USD to work on licensing. --Marti (WMF) (talk) 16:45, 3 March 2017 (UTC)