Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African Wikimedia Developers
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Project Goal
editChoose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.
- Increase the awareness of volunteer developer opportunities in Africa
- Recruit new volunteer developers from the continent
- Create a community of developers on the continent
- Participate in solving technical problems from the larger community
- Promote participation in continental and international programs that benefit the community (GSoC)
- Ensure participation from Africa in tech related community events such as Hackathon
Project Plan
editActivities
editTell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?
We will be hosting or conducting trainings in countries across the continent to create awareness about the technical or development aspect of the Wikimedia Movement and build the capacity of participants in areas that they may be lagging yet important to becoming a volunteer developer in the movement.
We hope to achieve this via:
- Awareness creation
- Training and capacity building
- Ensuring a continuous communication to enforce a going concern
The plan was to do this in a host of countries however we have adopted a strategy to try out one (1) country for a period of two (2) months in the pilot phase to closely monitor growth of the campaign and learn from the lapses and areas to be improved. We have carefully selected Ghana to be the first country of host (pilot country), mainly because we are highly equipped with enough resources to closely monitor progress and learn from the fall outs in this pilot phase before finally scaling it to other countries.
2. How will you let your community know about the event? Please paste links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.
- An email will be sent out to the African Mailing List
- A message will be shared on our facebook and twitter pages
- An email will be sent to the Wikimedia Developer Mailing List
3. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors/developers to lead the event?
We currently have the only African volunteer developer for the Wikimedia Foundation as a member of the team to ensure a success of the program. Also we possess an experience editor from the Ghanaian community and a member of the team who will treating topics such as capacity building and talking about the benefits of volunteering as a developer.
4. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
Our target audience is already existing developers and computer science students. People who have some level of understanding of developing and can easily relate with the subject that will be treated. Mostly these category of people have the prerequisite knowledge and devices needed to enhance our work at the event.
We have partnered a few developer communities who will share this opportunity within their networks and ensure we reach the right audience.
5. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
We will ensure sustainability of this project through the initiation or creation of developer communities in each country we visit. There will also be constant engagement through the mailing list african-wikimedia-developerslists.wikimedia.org and through the leaders of the communities created.
6. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
The community can find out more about our activities and plans here - African Wikimedia Developers Project
Impact
editHow will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- Have at least 30 people attend the event
- Recruit a minimum of 20 volunteers
- Maintain a minimum of 5 active developers at the end of the pilot phase
- If 1/2 of the total number of communities in Africa know about us.
Resources
editWhat resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).
Team
- Felix Nartey - Will be responsible for all project management issues, community engagement and will deliver aspect of the training focused on volunteer burnout and significance of the project.
- Alangi Derick - Will be responsible for training and providing technical support to the team and volunteers.
Advisors
- Quim Gill
- Srishti Sethi
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
| ITEM | QUANTITY | UNIT PRICE GHC | TOTAL BUDGET GHC | TOTAL BUDGET USD | COMMENTS |
| Travel Logistics | |||||
| Return ticket | 1 | 3288 | 3288 | 801.95 | For the trainer and co-organiser of the event |
| Transport to and from Airport | 2 | 50 | 100 | 24.39 | To convey trainer from and to the airport |
| Accomodation | 2 | 370 | 740 | 180.49 | Required for a maximum of 2 days but will depend on the availability of flight for Saturday |
| Visa Fee | 1 | 615 | 615 | 150.00 | Visa needed to be in country |
| Event Logistics | |||||
| Tshirts | 50 | 22 | 1100 | 268.29 | Needed as a marketing tool for the event during and after |
| Event Venue | 2 | 500 | 1000 | 243.90 | Venue for training |
| Food | 100 | 50 | 5000 | 1219.51 | Since we will be keeping participants for long hours we wish to provide one coffee break and launch for 50 people x 2 days = 100 as stated in the quantity column. |
| Water | 5 | 20 | 100 | 24.39 | A box contains 24 so literally we need 2 for a day making 4 total. But we added one for contingency reasons |
| Internet | 1 | 399 | 399 | 97.32 | The program will require internet usage and we anticipate using the internet resources of the venue might create problems, so this is a back up |
| Transport | 100 | 2 | 200 | 48.78 | Transportation to and from venue for 2 days by resident organizers |
| Phone calls | 50 | 1 | 50 | 12.20 | Cost of phone calls in the execution of the project |
| Roll up banner | 1 | 350 | 350 | 85.37 | A marketing material that could be used in the host country for subsequent activities |
| Total | 12942 | 3156.59 | Total amount including both Travel and Event Logistics | ||
| Amount to be funded | 8199 | 1999.76 | Without the travel budget (Amount expected to be funded) | ||
| Travel budget | 1156.83 | (Will be funded by the developer relations team) | |||
NB: The amount requested to be funded under the rapid grant is 1999.76 USD, specifically to cover event logistics. The amount of 1156.83 USD as stated for the travel logistics will be covered by the developers relations team at the WMF.
Endorsements
editCommunity members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!
Endorsed -- The idea of training African on how to write and maintain script such as js coding, and fixing issues with script seem like a brilliant one to me. Good luck with the project. Wikicology (talk) 07:33, 23 May 2017 (UTC)- An African Wikimedia Developer Community is long overdue; thanks to Felix for finally trying to make this a reality. This is a project I'll love to be part of, in the long run. I totally support this project.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 13:50, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
SupportThis initiative will help more African developers to embark on Wiki projects and will somehow foster the broader African wikimedians community. I strongly support it. African Hope (talk) 18:02, 24 May 2017 (UTC)- Support-- A noble idea... I will be glad to learn coding and my team. Olaniyan Olushola (talk) 06:02, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
