From Wikimania 2012 • Washington, D.C., USA
Scholarship Team
- Jessie Wild, Scholarships Program Manager (Wikimedia Foundation staff)
- Sage Ross, Wikimania 2012 Scholarships Reviewer (Washington DC team representative)
- TSB, Wikimania 2012 Scholarships Reviewer
- Angela Beesley Starling, Wikimania 2012 Scholarships Reviewer
- Alice Wiegand, Wikimania 2012 Scholarships Reviewer
- Ting Chen, Wikimania 2012 Scholarships Reviewer
- Delphine Ménard, Wikimania 2012 Scholarships Reviewer
Beatriz Busaniche, Wikimania 2012 Scholarships Reviewer
Tasks
Reviewers
- Responsibilities
- Assistance in determination of scholarship applicant requirements.
- Assurance of due consideration and speedy response time to Wikimania scholarship applications.
- Estimated time: ~55 hours
- Sample activities
- Participating in periodic online meetings with scholarships program manager and volunteer committee.
- Determining suitability of candidates based on established criteria.
- Selecting scholarship awardees.
Local Wikimania representative
- Responsibilities
- See above (Reviewers)
- Serve as the communication point between the scholarship proceedings and the local Wikimania team
- Answer local team's questions
- Update committee on important points regarding the conference planning (e.g., timelines)
- Monitor OTRS with questions regarding the scholarship
- Sample activities
- See above (Reviewers)
- Answer OTRS queries
- Help in all visa-related issues
WMF Representative
- Responsibilities
- Helps organize the review committee
- Makes final selection of scholarship recipients, based on Committee's recommendations
- Point of individual contact for all scholarship recipients
- Coordinates travel arrangements for full scholarship recipients
- Ensures reimbursements for scholarship recipients
- Conducts research following Wikimania
