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I agree. Even a mail merge email would do the trick.


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From: Awadewit <awadewit@gmail.com>
To: wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2008 11:29:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 32, Issue 3

It is simply common courtesy to respond to everyone to applied, letting them know whether they were granted a scholarship or not. Not everyone is subscribed to this list, for example. I am rather shocked that at least a general "We are sorry, but we are unable to fund you" email is not being sent out to those who did not receive scholarships.

Thanks,
Awadewit

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Awadewit wrote:
| It is simply common courtesy to respond to everyone to applied, letting
| them know whether they were granted a scholarship or not. Not everyone
| is subscribed to this list, for example. I am rather shocked that at
| least a general "We are sorry, but we are unable to fund you" email is
| not being sent out to those who did not receive scholarships.
|
| Thanks,
| Awadewit

Actually, I'm surprised by your shock, and saddened you didn't read my
original email. This is hard enough for us to do--and we certainly
appreciate people taking the time to read things thoroughly.

If you had read it, you would understand that this was not a broad
applicant rejection but that most of the decisions had been made.

We have been sending out general "We are sorry" emails, to those who
have already been eliminated. If you have not been sent an email, it
means you're still in consideration for the remaining money left to be
allocated toward scholarships, and also that we still anticipate some
people would not accept the partial scholarships that were offered.

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2008/6/9 Cary Bass <cbass@wikimedia.org>:

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> Actually, I'm surprised by your shock, and saddened you didn't read my
> original email. This is hard enough for us to do--and we certainly
> appreciate people taking the time to read things thoroughly.
>
> If you had read it, you would understand that this was not a broad
> applicant rejection but that most of the decisions had been made.
>
> We have been sending out general "We are sorry" emails, to those who
> have already been eliminated. If you have not been sent an email, it
> means you're still in consideration for the remaining money left to be
> allocated toward scholarships, and also that we still anticipate some
> people would not accept the partial scholarships that were offered.
>
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> Cary Bass
> Volunteer Coordinator<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l>
>

Cary, the conference is so close now, and prices so expensive, that even if
I was considered in the end, it's really far too late to be able to book
anything remotely within my price range. This should have been completed by
early May at the very latest. My offer to help next year still stands.

--
Al Tally
(User:Majorly)

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Al Tally <majorly.wiki@googlemail.com> wrote:
> My offer to help next year still stands.

In that case, let's add this to our listing of things WM2009 has to
work on -- securing more sponsorship money. I'm willing to help with
that as well, if need be.

--
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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