@Ijon, @AlexWang, what is the best way to announce to all Wikimedia orgs the possibility to sponsor their developers for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2015?

@80686, which were your contacts in the chapters last year?

I remember that @Lydia_Pintscher was the contact for WMDE. Lydia, I hope you want to repeat the travel sponsorship initiative. :)

I'm sending an email to every chapter right now.
When Nathalie will be there, I'll ask him direct email adresses of every executive director to put some pressure and force them to give an answer asap. ;)

This is exactly what I did. I wrote to every European chapter contact form so far, with a link to this page and also the link for registration in case they want to spread it to their members.

Through Nathalie, I'll send an email to every Executive Director during daytime.

We can reach to other chapters beyond Europe. Wikimedia India comes to mind, considering that this is the single non-European country where we always receive more sponsorship requests,

I will contact Wikimedia Israel (CCing you), since last year we had lengthy discussions about organizing a hackathon there.

Any updates from chapters? Did you contact Wikimedia India and other non-EU chapters?

I'm in touch with Wikimedia Israel, still discussing. I have also contacted Amical Wikimedia today, since they mentioned the idea of sponsoring developers of their areas last year.

Hello Quim,

I had a few questions regarding this pooling.

What is the main idea of it? Are all chapters gathering the money, non regarding who come from which country or does this serve only to pay coders from their own countries?

Because I've had answer from a chapter saying they will fund only their own coders and that they don't feel like writting the amount here.

I thought everyone was paying for everyone... Isn't there any solidarity between the chapters?

In T88523#1121448, @AlexCella wrote:

Hello Quim,

I had a few questions regarding this pooling.

Note: I have tried to document the pratice at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/Travel_sponsorship#Co-funding_travel_sponsorship (as it was done for Zürich last year)

What is the main idea of it? Are all chapters gathering the money, non regarding who come from which country or does this serve only to pay coders from their own countries?

They focus on travel sponsorship of the regions they represent.

Because I've had answer from a chapter saying they will fund only their own coders and that they don't feel like writting the amount here.

"fund only their own coders" is what was done last year. About not writing the amount here... well, the accounts of chapters are public anyway, but as they wish. We need to know how much money / how many people each chapter wants to support if we want to work together.

I thought everyone was paying for everyone... Isn't there any solidarity between the chapters?

Local travel sponsorship is easier to justify to your stakeholders. The WMF budget is global.

I guess this task is completed as well at this point?

PS: I know that Amical Wikimedia is sending 2 developers from their own budget for events.

Hey,

regarding the first round of Scholarship approval sent, and by calculating average flight costs for the 24 attendees, we have:

Travel cost: 11.700,00€
Housing costs= 24*160,00 = 3.840,00€
Total= 15,540,00€

Total amount available= 33.227,00€

We then have 17,7K€ left for scholarships.

@Qgil @Rfarrand What is the strategy now?
So far, I've invited all those who had a majority of green and no red.

I guess we can no invite those who are mainly MAYBE or those who are majority green with one red.

The discussion public discussion about travel sponsorship approvals goes to T88406: Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 travel sponsorship, and I have just replied here.

This task here is about pooling funds from chapters and, as said, it looks like it is complete already.