Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Art+Feminism 2020 (DRC)

Comments from WMF

Hello Yves Madika, thank you for submitting a Rapid Grant request. It’s great to see that you’re organizing an Art and Feminism event for the first time. We have reviewed your request and have the following comments and questions.

• How many T-shirts are you going to purchase?
• What does “Local” in your detailed budget refer to?
• You have budgeted the cost of project management. Please reduce this cost and update your budget, since the Rapid Grant funds may not currently be used as compensation for people’s time.
• Are there any other experienced editors who will support you throughout your event? Would you please share with us their usernames?
• We kindly ask you to respond on the proposal page on how you will engage participants after the event.

Thank you again for your contribution to Wikimedia Movement. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 06:47, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello DSaroyan (WMF), here are my answers to a questions

• 20 T-shirts
• By local, I mean venue
• The cost for project management has been reduced to 50$
• Yes, there are experienced editors who will support me : BamLifa, VALENTIN NVJ

--Yves Madika (talk) 14:15, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Additional comments from WMF

Hello Yves Madika, thank you for your responses. I have a few additional comments.

• Please reduce the number of T-shirts to the number of organizers plus five T-shirts for outstanding contributors for each event.
• What is the purpose of the project management costs? Please remove it completely if it is to compensate people’s time.

Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 07:09, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello DSaroyan (WMF)

I have reduced the number of t-shirts to 15 : 5 for organizers and 5 for contributors for each event. Best regards, I have completely remove Project management.

--Yves Madika (talk) 14:39, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Approved

Hello Yves Madika, thank you for making the requested changes. I am approving your grant request! Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 06:43, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Request a new end date

Hi!

We would like to request a new end date for our grant because until now the fund is not yet arrived. --Yves Madika (talk) 11:15, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Request for a new end date

Hi there,

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we could not finish our project as we planned. For that reason, we are requesting a new end date to August 3, 2020 while we're working on how to run our activity online. --BamLifa (talk) 12:09, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Request approved

Hello BamLifa, thanks for posting your request. I'm sorry that you have to postpone your event due to COVID-19. I'm approving you request and postponing the grant end date to 3 August 2020. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 16:29, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Noting here that your grant report due date is now on September 3, 2020. Thank you! -- JTud (WMF), Grants Administrator (talk) 17:07, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Extend end date

We are about to finish our project. We did run this activity for one month. As we are out of the due date, we would like to request a new end date to October 5, 2020. --BamLifa (talk) 10:41, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello BamLifa, I'm approving your request and offering you an extension for the grant end date until October 5, 2020. The new reporting due date is now on November 5, 2020. Best regards--DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 10:37, 9 September 2020 (UTC)