Użytkowniczka:Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska (WMPL)/brudnopis

Scholarship process

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	6
Number data packages funded	2

Wikimania stickers!

Other items funded:

• transport for person with special needs
• Wikimania swag

Events

Wikimania event in Katowice

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.

Learnings

• 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!