We need to decide the process to request travel sponsorship for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 and the evaluation criteria. Finally, we need to decide who is sponsored.
WARNING: **THIS IS A DRAFT**
== Travel sponsorship goals ==
* Bring remote contributors together
* Mix professional and volunteer contributors
* Recognize and reward community champions
* Invite remarkable contributors from other communities
== Priorities ==
* Enable meetings of projects with 50-100% volunteers
* Pair newcomers with experienced contributors && professionals with volunteers
* Strengthen relationships with upstream projects || other established communities
== Problems we want to solve ==
* Participants without a hackathon plan doing doing regular work behind their laptops.
* Newcomers not able to break the ice and mingle with the rest.
* Clusters of established teams/friends not mingling either.
* Meetings of usual suspects missing a chance to get fresh air and new ideas from others.
== How to assure your travel sponsorship ==
* Find a complementary buddy (newcomer/veteran, professional/volunteer...), propose a collaboration plan, and we will accept you both.
** You can choose someone with good reputation upstream or in some related project.
** We can help finding your buddy in our community (Wikimedia Foundation included) or in other projects.
* Propose an activity as a team of 50-100% volunteers, and request sponsorship as a block. We might not be able to accept everybody, but in that case we will discuss the alternatives with you as a block.
This refers to travel sponsorship covered with the Wikimedia Foundation funds. Wikimedia Chapters might decide other criteria with their own funds.
== See also ==
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/Travel_sponsorship
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Scholarships