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Proposal for the application for a grant that has to be applied for before the 20th]

Feb 16, 2005, 7:51 PM

Post #1 of 3 (489 views)

Hoi,

I have posted http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IFAP it is an outline for a
proposal for a $45.000,- grant. We need to apply before the 20th of this
month. Please, do understand that if we apply for this grant, we have to
spend money the way we describe. It does not help if you think we should
not spend the money. We either do or we do not apply and, that way we do
not benefit and neither do the people who benefit most who are
incidentally not the people who get paid.

This proposal aims to achieve three things:
* cooperation with the Open Office org by creating a dictionary
integrated into wiktionary for languages they work on. This is a win win
situation
*a dictionary and translations dictionary that helps translators and
students of languages; wiktionary is a many to many dictionary
*better functionality for wiktionary that will prevent a lot of double
work and removes the need for running bots to share our work.

I hope we agree that this is a feasible project and that we can move
forward with this proposal.

Thanks.
GerardM

Re: Proposal for the application for a grant that has to be applied for before the 20th] [ In reply to ]

robin.shannon at gmail

Feb 17, 2005, 7:47 PM

Post #2 of 3 (492 views)

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Fucking brilliant idea, but im not quite sure about the ideas to spend
the money. Exactly what is needed on the software front that isnt
currently provided by wikimedia?

paz y amor,
[[User:The bellman]]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:51:48 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
>
> I have posted http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IFAP it is an outline for a
> proposal for a $45.000,- grant. We need to apply before the 20th of this
> month. Please, do understand that if we apply for this grant, we have to
> spend money the way we describe. It does not help if you think we should
> not spend the money. We either do or we do not apply and, that way we do
> not benefit and neither do the people who benefit most who are
> incidentally not the people who get paid.
>
> This proposal aims to achieve three things:
> * cooperation with the Open Office org by creating a dictionary
> integrated into wiktionary for languages they work on. This is a win win
> situation
> *a dictionary and translations dictionary that helps translators and
> students of languages; wiktionary is a many to many dictionary
> *better functionality for wiktionary that will prevent a lot of double
> work and removes the need for running bots to share our work.
>
> I hope we agree that this is a feasible project and that we can move
> forward with this proposal.
>
> Thanks.
> GerardM
>
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Re: Proposal for the application for a grant that has to be applied for before the 20th] [ In reply to ]

2.718281828 at gmail

Feb 18, 2005, 4:11 PM

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I think this is a fabulous project, and am certain it will get funding
from some source as it becomes better fleshed out. However, *please*
make sure that you are addressing the needs of the organization you
are applying to. As stated below, the proposal does not address the
immediate IFAP priorities.

If you could explain how you think the proposal could be changed to
meet those priorities, I would be glad to help. As it is, I'm not
sure how to make the existing proposal into a feasible application.

+sj+

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:51:48 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
>
> I have posted http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IFAP it is an outline for a
> proposal for a $45.000,- grant. We need to apply before the 20th of this
> month. Please, do understand that if we apply for this grant, we have to
> spend money the way we describe. It does not help if you think we should
> not spend the money. We either do or we do not apply and, that way we do
> not benefit and neither do the people who benefit most who are
> incidentally not the people who get paid.
>
> This proposal aims to achieve three things:
> * cooperation with the Open Office org by creating a dictionary
> integrated into wiktionary for languages they work on. This is a win win
> situation
> *a dictionary and translations dictionary that helps translators and
> students of languages; wiktionary is a many to many dictionary
> *better functionality for wiktionary that will prevent a lot of double
> work and removes the need for running bots to share our work.
>
> I hope we agree that this is a feasible project and that we can move
> forward with this proposal.
>
> Thanks.
> GerardM