Wikimania 2022/Scholarships/Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group
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Project Plan
editActivities
editWhat Wikimedia movement affiliate do you represent?
How will the funding requested support your community’s participation at Wikimania?
Please review following eligible activities and expenses below, and write below any that will be included in your activities.
- Childcare services (or similar family services) to support Wikimania participation
- Data packages to distribute to Wikimania participants
- Administrative or operational costs for to distribute funds to community members, such as transfer fees
- Small hardware expenses to support access (such as webcams, microphones, head/earphones)
- Note: Requests for computers, laptops, tablets, and other personal devices are not eligible.
- Translation services for a Wikimania session
- Video production support for pre-recorded Wikimania sessions (such as equipment or space)
- In-person meetups that coincide with Wikimania activities (food, beverage, meeting space)
- Printed artwork, conference swag/merchandise for event participants
- In-person meetups that coincide with Wikimania activities (Conference room, internet, food, beverage, travel tickets, meeting space etc)
- Printed artwork, conference swag/merchandise for event participants
We are planning to organize a three-day national level Wikimania Indic Hackathon in Bangalore during the main Wikimania event. This meet-up is composed of two tracks running parallelly for the whole meet-up. One track is dedicated to hackathons while the other track is for attending and engaging with online Wikimania events.
The hackathon is a participant-led track and participants will choose and work on the project of their interest from the set of pre-listed tasks. A brief list of activities that will be planned for the hackathon track:
- Introduction to Wikimedia movement in India
- Bug fixes
- Making improvements to existing tools
- Community discussions
We will join in the Wikimania festival celebrations during the 3-day event and the participants would be encouraged to join the different discussions to learn, contribute and share their experiences during Wikimania 2022. We also encourage newcomers to join the event and learn about the Wikimania, and the Wikimedia moment and help them in making connections with our fellow developers from across the globe.
We are planning to retain the ‘Festival Theme’ of Wikimania. So, the following components will be included in both the tracks:
- Ice-break questions or social activity for entertainment and better interaction among the participants.
- Spotlight Talks to showcase the achievements/contributions of participants.
- Optional: A group photo in traditional wear of their native place (India has a huge diversity).
If you are planning to distribute funds to community members, such as by running a local scholarship program, please provide additional detail on how you will organize this process.
Please provide a summary explaining the following:
- how you will invite community members to apply for funding,
- the criteria you will use to determine eligibility, and
- the processes or services you will use to distribute funds.
This description does not need to be comprehensive, but should generally explain the process for how community members will receive funds or support to participate in Wikimania. For support on eligibility criteria, feel free to review this reviewer's guide for previous Wikimania scholarship programs.
If you are not distributing funds to community members, please write N/A below.
- We will be releasing the scholarship forms to all Indic Wikimedia technical communities three to four weeks before the meet-up begins. The applications will be reviewed and scored independently by three-four panel members from the organizing team based on the following factors: experience with Open Source projects, contributions, community involvement etc.
Resources
editWhat resources do you have? what they will do, and if you Include information on who is the organizing the project, you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).
- Organizers
- Resource persons
- A person from Wikimedia Foundation (yet to be decided)
Outcomes
editPlease provide a range or estimate for the number of participants the funding will support.
It is OK if this is estimate is based on limited information, but we want to have an idea of how your activities will support community participation in Wikimania.
Some examples:
- 3-5 participants will receive childcare support to support their participation at Wikimania.
- 10 participants will receive hardware support
- 10-20 participants will receive data packages to support their participation at Wikimania
- We have planned to provide scholarships to 12 applicants to participate and the allocated funds will be spent to cover the participants' food, accommodation and travel, conference room & facilities, and SWAG.
- Previously, We had conducted a hackathon in Hyderabad in May 2022. This hackathon will be our second event for the year. The first hackathon was a great beginning for in-person events and most of its goals have been achieved. With this drive, we would like to conduct our second community event during the Wikimania at Bangalore and involve participants in community development discussions and expand the technical developer's community.
- The outcomes of the event are as follows:
- To develop the connection and collaboration among the Indic Wikimedia technical contributors and the community.
- Encourage participants to know about the Wikimedia movement in India, ongoing projects, Mediawiki and other technical aspects of the Wikimedia ecosystem.
- Identify technical areas for development and new tool requests from the communities and work on them.
- Invite participants to collaborate with the core committee and engage in organizing the future Wikimedia technical events.
- Introduce the Wikimedia moment to newcomers to learn and help them kick start with their contributions to the moment both technically and non-technically based on their interest.
Budget
editHow you will use the funds you are requesting? Please use the following categories for your expenses. Don’t forget to include a total amount, and update this amount in the Probox at the top of your page too!
- Childcare services (or similar family services)
- Data packages to distribute to Wikimania participants
- In addition to a total budget, please indicate the average data cost per person who will receive funds for this need.
- Administrative or operational costs for distributing funds
- Small hardware expenses to support access
- Translation services for a Wikimania session
- Video production support
- Wikimania meetups and watch parties during the days of the event
- Printed artwork, conference swag/merchandise for event participants
| S. No | Item | Quantity | Cost per unit | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travel - Flight | 12 | ₹ 12,000 | ₹ 1,44,000 |
| 2 | Conference Hall Equipment (Projector/Speakers) | 1 | ₹ 15,000 | ₹ 15,000 |
| 3 | Local travel | 12 | ₹ 5,000 | ₹ 60,000 |
| 4 | Accommodation + Breakfast | 24 (6 Rooms, 4 nights) | ₹ 5,000 | ₹ 1,20,000 |
| 5 | Lunch | 36 (12 people, 3 days) | ₹ 1,500 | ₹ 54,000 |
| 6 | Dinner | 48 (12 people, 4 days) | ₹ 800 | ₹ 38,400 |
| 7 | First Aid & COVID-19 safety kits | 1 | ₹ 3,000 | ₹ 3,000 |
| 8 | SWAG + Banners/Posters | 12 | ₹ 500 | ₹ 6,000 |
| 9 | Contingency | 1 | ₹ 23,000 | ₹ 23,000 |
| Total | ₹ 4,63,400.00 | |||
| Total in USD as on 3 June 2022. 1 USD = 77.62 INR |
$ 5977.81 | |||
- NOTE: Currently, the proposed plan is for 12 participants. If the budget is strictly restricted to $ 5,000, we will reduce the number of participants.
Completing your application
editOnce you have completed the application, please do the following:
- Change the application status from
status=drafttostatus=proposedin the {{Probox}} template. - Contact wikimania
wikimedia.org to confirm your submission, as well as to request any support around your application.
