2010/7/15 Keegan Peterzell <keegan.w...@gmail.com>: > Okay, this thread has intrigued me and I thought the answers would pan out > and it seems to have gone in various directions, but it was initiated by > Milos so I'll focus on what I perceive to be his problem: Corruption > (through careerism, nepotism, political functions) and the have versus have > nots. > > My reading between the lines is that this has to do with how scholarships > and other financial assistance allowed some to attend Wikimania and "live it > up" as the slang goes, versus those that attended on their own dime and > didn't have the resources to take part in the social, after hours functions > that are the lifeblood of networking. If this is the case, the issue that > is had is allegations of personal rather than professional reasons that some > got to attend and had the resources, based on financing, to party.
Just about the scholarship. As far as I know there were two scholarships - one provided by WMF and the one combined, provided by Polish and Russian chapters. The WMF scholarship committee was quite international, and at least what I heard from one Polish Wikipedian, who was a member of that committee there were clear and resonable conditions of choosing the best candidates. In case of Polish-Russian scholarship we in fact accepted all candidates who applied and fullfiled basic requirements (language skills and proved commitement to Wikimedia projects). Polish-Russian scholarship was open to all, and except Russians and Polish Wikimedians several Ukrainians and one from Czech Republic took advatange of them. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/TomaszGanicz.html _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
