Deryck please could you confirm what happened with regards to the unused funds - did WMHK request a reallocation?
Sent from my iPhone --- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone On 29 Apr 2013, at 12:43, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Deryck Chan" <[email protected]> > Date: 29 Apr 2013 12:42 > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark > to everyone > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <[email protected]> > > See the footnotes on the FDC decision page. Both WMHK and WMCZ were > declared eligible at the time of submission, but the WMF subsequently found > new faults during the review period which they chose to use as convenient > excuses to disqualify these 2 chapters. > On 29 Apr 2013 12:33, "Craig Franklin" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd like to come back to this - if the entity was told they were eligible >> (which certainly looks to be the case from the public documents), when was >> it discovered they were not? Obviously, putting together an FDC >> application is a tremendous amount of work for a chapter, and if the effort >> was futile from the start, then the time that Deryck and WMHK put into this >> could have been better spent on useful programme work instead. >> >> Cheers, >> Craig Franklin >> >> >> On 29 April 2013 17:25, Thehelpfulone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 29 Apr 2013, at 07:52, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm not familiar with the case, but reading that page, it seems that >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:WM_HK/Education_Toolkits_For_Liberal_Studies/Report#Remaining_funds >>>> might also have played a role for the FDC's recommendation? >>> >>> Indeed, yet it looks like there has been no (public) follow up by the >> paid >>> WMF grants staff for over a month. In addition, >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Hong_KongshowsWMHK >> to still be an eligible entity. >>> >>> Winifred/Asaf, please can you clarify whether WMHK is still an eligible >>> entity and what follow up was done after that message a month ago? >>> >>> --- >>> Thehelpfulone >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
