Grants:WM VE/Start-Up

From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Funded
This submission to the Wikimedia Foundation Grants Program was funded in the fiscal year 2012-13. This is a grant to an organization.

IMPORTANT: Please do not make changes to this page without the explicit approval of WMF Grants Program staff. They will be reverted.

  • This project has already been funded, but you may still add comments to or review the comments of the grantee, other community members, the WMF, and the GAC on the discussion page.
  • To review a list of other funded submissions by fiscal year, please visit the Requests subpage, and to review the WMF Grants Program criteria for funding please visit the Grants:Index.
  • For grantees only: a report has not yet been submitted for this project. Please review the requirements listed on the Grants:Index and provide a report no later than 90 days after the project completion date listed in this submission. Once your report is complete, please Email grants at wikimedia dot org.
Legal name of organization or individual requesting this grant
Wikimedia Venezuela
For organizations: Are you a for-profit entity? No
For organizations: If non-profit (US) or equivalent (outside the US) status is available in your country, do you have or are you pursuing such status (please be specific): We are legally registered in Venezuela as a Civil (non-profit) Association
For individual applicants: Please note that if your request is accepted you will be required to provide documentation verifying your full legal name and address.
Grant contact name
Carlos Manuel Colina
Grant contact username or email
User:Jewbask
Grant contact title (position)
Treasurer
Project lead name
Oscar Costero
Project lead username or email
Oscar_.
Project lead title (position), if any
President
Full project name
Start-Up Grant
Amount requested in USD or local currency (USD will be assumed if no other currency is specified)
US$ 13,224.71
Provisional target start date
June 2012
Provisional completion date
May 2013

Contents

Budget breakdown [edit]

Units Cost per unit
(VEF)		 Total cost
(VEF)		 Total cost
(USD)[1]
Equipment and spendables 16,879 3,925.35
Multi-function printer 1 800 800 186.05
Ink cartridges for printer 5 190 950 220.93
Mobile internet kits (net-sticks) 1 1,440 1,440 334.88
VideoBeam (projector) 1 3,499 3,499 813.72
Other office supplies X X 2,500 581.40
Fixed telephone line plus prepaid service for 1 year 1 3,290 3,290 765.11
Portable computers[2] 1 4400 4400 1,023.26
Digital Camera 1 1500 1500 348.84
Website 530 123.26
Renewal of wikimedia.org.ve site (2 years)[3] 1 180 180 41.86
Hosting (Basic: 20 GB) 1 350 350 81.40
Legal requirements 6,510 1,513.95
Legalisation of bylaws with a notary[4] 1 2,000 2,000 465.12
Official books for Board Meetings and Accounting books 9 200 1,800 418.60
Records and registration 1 2,000 2,000 465.12
Opening of a bank account 1 500 500 116,28
Official seals 3 70 210 48.84
Administration 5,947.26 1,383.08
Post to be sent to the WMF (Chapter Agreement and Bylaws)[5] 2 123.63 247.26 57.50
Monthly payment of PO Box 12 400 4,800 1,116.27
Packages of business cards 5 180 900 209.30
Outreach and projects 12,000 2,790.70
Promotional material: T-shirts (to be acquired by the members of WMVE at a reduced cost) 100 180 1,800 4,186.05
Promotional material: buttons with WMVE and/or Wikipedia logos 400 4 1,600 372.10
WikiEncuentro Valencia 2012: Material and refreshments for 40 people 1 5,000 5,000 1,162.79
WikiEncuentro Caracas 2012 + First General Assembly: Material and refreshments for 50 people 1 7,000 7,000 1,627.91
Participation in ForoTIC 2012: Promotional Material for 400 people[6] 1 5,000 5,000 1,162.79
Travels[7] 12,000 2,790.70
Trips between Caracas and Valencia, Maracaibo, Barquisimeto, Cumaná, Puerto Ordaz, Punto Fijo and other cities 10 500 5,000 1,162.79
Travel allowances (daily per travel; incl. accomodation) 10 700 7,000 1,627.91
Reserves 3,000 697.67
TOTAL (with reserves) 56,866.26 13,224.71
  1. ↑ Exchange rate: 1 USD = 4.30 VEF (May 2012)
  2. ↑ Price reference: Tienda Arroba.com
  3. ↑ Fees from NIC.ve
  4. ↑ This has already been done due to the need to be registered before getting an IRS number, opening a bank account and performing all duties
  5. ↑ DHL rates
  6. ↑ Required by the organizers: Buttons, WMVE Banner, flyers/triptychs
  7. ↑ Travels consider people for two nights Fri-Sat from/to Simón Bolívar International Airport (CCS) or by Bus if the cities are near (In the Caracas-Valencia-Maracay, Maracaibo-Cabimas, San Felipe-Barquisimeto-Acarigua, Coro-Punto Fijo, Barcelona-Puerto La Cruz-Cumaná, Ciudad Bolívar-Puerto Ordaz axes). The prices of the airline tickets have been calculated on the cheapest Economy seat available on Asercaairlines.com, Laser.com.ve, Aeropostal.com.ve, Avior.com.ve or Conviasa.aero

Project goal [edit]

The objective of this grant is to cover the expenses of the process to establish Wikimedia Venezuela (legal fees, administration, technical infraestructure, etc.) and the main projects that will be developed by the chapter in 2012-2013.

Project scope and list of activities [edit]

These projects follow the strategy of the chapter along three main areas where Wikimedia Venezuela will focus in the following years:

  1. Cultural Heritage: Outreach with institutions in Venezuela for the better documentation of all heritage buildings and structures in the country, according to the Instituto de Patrimonio Cultural.
  2. Indigenous languages: Development of Wikipedia in Wayuunaiki and support for the creation of Wiktionaries and Wikisources in aboriginal/endangered languages spoken in Venezuela.
  3. Educational efforts: Wikipedia Offline para Canaima Educativo project with the Venezuelan Ministry of Education to provide offline Wikipedia content for the OLPC local program.

Project goals [edit]

  • Establishment of Wikimedia Venezuela as an official non-profit association under Venezuelan law.
  • Ensure participation of Venezuelan contributors to the Wikimedia movement, not only people from Caracas.
  • Engage with cultural and educational institutions in the main cities of the country.
  • Development of projects in indigenous languages (Wayuunaiki, Yaruro, Ye'kuana, Yukpa, Barí, Warao, Guahibo, Pemón, Kari'ña, Warao and Añú, among others).
  • Improve Wikimedia movement awareness and engagement in Venezuela.
  • Ensure the good use of the Wikimedia logos and marks.

Non-financial requirements [edit]

It is recommended to send the grant in two or three rounds in different months, in order to reduce involvement of the national tax institution and fees to the bank. And a press release would be great too :-)

Fit to strategy [edit]

The projects covered by this grant align with the Wikimedia Foundation's strategic plan to increase participation, increase reach and improve quality, especially in countries of the so-called Global South.

  • Increase participation: We want to get involved with most of the people of the Venezuelan community and not just the people in the Greater Caracas. Venezuela is a very large country (Maracaibo is an 1.5+ hours fly away from Margarita Island, for example) with its population centers mostly located along its more than 4,000 km-long coast. We want to create a real national chapter with participation from people of all over the country.
  • Increase reach: We want to get involved with educational communities. Inclusion is a topic really important for the Venezuelan society right now and we believe that the access to free knowledge can make a difference for children and teachers. Also, we want to incorporate people that has been left behind because of social, linguistic or economic issues
  • Improve quality: We have been in contact with different cultural institutions to establish cooperation agreements that can improve the quality of the Wikimedia projects and allow the release of documents and archives to the public domain, with a focus on Venezuelan and Latin American history and heritage.

Other benefits [edit]

We expect to get positive media attention with our projects, which may also persuade more people (like the Caracas Center of Sephardic Studies and the General Archives of the Nation, for instance) to give their materials out for free use, to incorporate in our organisation and to become members of the different projects of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Measures of success [edit]

  • Establishment of Wikimedia Venezuela as a successful non-profit corporation under Venezuelan law.
  • Agreements with cultural and educational institutions.
  • Increase participation in the Wayuunaiki Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wiktionary at the Wikimedia Incubator and their release as official projects.

Team members (optional) [edit]

For grantees

If you are the author of this submission or an authorized representative of the grantee, you may take one of the actions listed below:




Retrieved from "http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants:WM_VE/Start-Up&oldid=5327265"