Wikimania 2022/Scholarships/Fulfulde Wikimedians Community/Report
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Goals
editDid you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?
- Yes, we were very happy because this was Wikimedia Fulfulde Community's first time in participating and distributing Wikimania scholarship grants. It was both a significant experience and a learning for us in knowing how best to support our community members with the necessary support that help them in getting the chance to be involved in this year's Wikimania local physical meet-up event based in Potiskum. We were able to support the inaugurated 35 members of our community with data supports to attend the virtual sessions of the Wikimania event on PheedLoop and Youtube, travel expenses for members who live outside the city, hardware expenses to support access (e.g the webcams, microphones, headset/earphones, speakers), childcare services to support especially women to take part in Wikimania, pre-Wikimania meetups to educate first-time participants on what Wikimania is all about, post-Wikimania meetups resulting from having attended Wikimania (food, beverage, meeting space) and prints related services.
Outcome
editPlease report on your original project targets.
| Target outcome | Achieved outcome | Explanation |
| Number of participants to receive childcare support, 3-5 | 5 | Married women with babies under breastfeeding age were selected and giving out the child care support to take care of their babies |
| Number of participants to receive hardware support, 10 | 10 | We supported 10 participants with hardware devices |
| Number of participants to receive data packages 10-20 | 35 | All the community members involved in this project were awarded scholarship packages to support them with data to take part in all the sessions of the Wikimania event |
| Number of physical events 3 | 3 | We had a pre-Wikimania meetup where we introduced the participants to what Wikimania is all about, Wikimedia Watch party and editathon and post Wikimania meet-up. |
Learning
editProjects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:
- What worked well?
- Coming together to gather under the same roof as members of the same community for the same time was so exciting, it was a moment that we hoped to see more of it. All the planned activities were smoothly run with no strange challenges except for what can be regarded as normal situation for every event like this.
- What did not work so well?
- We experienced network disconnections during the watch party sessions as some of the sessions were not properly watched on PheedLoop due to that problem.
Finances
editGrant funds spent
editPlease describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.
| S/N | ITEM & DESCRIPTION | UNIT | AMOUNT (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Data packages and transport stipends: we supported 20 participants from our community members with local transport stipends and all the 35 participants with data supports | 20 | $600 |
| 2 | Childcare services: we supported 5 married women with child care support to take care of their babies | 5 | $400 |
| 3 | Hardware components: we supported 10 participants with hardware devices (including such as webcam, micro-phones, headsets, speakers) | 15 | $240 |
| 4 | Charges: administrative or operational costs for distributing funds during transactions | - | $10 |
| 5 | Meetups: (before and after Wikimania activities) | 2 | $1150 |
| 6 | Printing service and set decorations:' Branded T-shirts/swags for participants, certificates, banner, cake and set decorations | 30 | $300 |
| TOTAL | 2700 |
Remaining funds
editDo you have any remaining grant funds?
- No
Anything else
editAnything else you want to share about your project?
- We were very glad that we had the chance to be funded which gave us the opportunity to support our community members to participate in the Wikimania event.