The scholarships were distributed by a committee of community members supported by a WMPL community support staff member and the office manager. The process was designed to be very straightforward and providing the applicant a quick decission.
All the applications were accepted and all applicants have received funding.
Item
Number
Number of scholarships
9
Small equipement sets funded
3
Number of live events organized
3
Number of people participating in live events
27
Number of online participants who received lunch sets
We have organized 3 live events for watching or discussing Wikimania. They have been organized in 3 cities, where the most active local communities are based:
Warsaw
Katowice
Poznań
Overall 27 people participated. To make the events accesible and inclusive we provided childcare during the events and funded transport for people with special needs.
it is important that the process is simple and quick so that it is easy to participate
for the first time we organized a longdistance (250 km) transport for a person with special needs, which helped us to work on processes for similar future cases and implement them for our future events
combing an online event with local live events helped in brining the Wikimania festive atmosphere to our community!
