Grants:PEG/WM CZ/Mediagrant/Photo Workshops

Legal name of chapter: Wikimedia Czech Republic
Grant contact name: Milda
Grant contact user-name or e-mail: wikipedista.milda@gmail.com
Grant contact title (position): WM CZ grant coordinator
Project lead name: Pavel Hrdlička
Project lead user-name or e-mail: packa@volna.cz
Project lead title (position), if any: Treasurer of Wikimedia CZ

Full project name: Photo Workshops
Amount requested (in USD): USD 1850
Provisional target start date: 2010-09-01
Provisional completion date: 2011-06-30

Budget breakdown

The requested funds shall cover accommodation, administration (renting the room etc.) and the substantive part of the participants´ travel expenses.

Autumn workshop: 9 to 11 participants

Accommodation: USD 390
Transportation: USD 220
Administration: USD 130

Spring workshop: 12 to 14 participants

Accommodation: USD 600
Transportation: USD 320
Administration: USD 190

Project scope

Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects need good free pictures, and the easiest way to get them is to teach Wikipedians how to create quality photographs. One of the best ways to increase the quality of their work is to help them pass experience to each other at a personal meeting.

Drawing on experience from the past, we intend to organize two weekend workshops for approximately ten Wikipedia photographers, during which they will learn make better photography, share their experience and knowledge and also discuss tips for future work.

Project goal

Improving the quality of Wikimedia Commons photographs. Bringing more trust among the photographers by making them get to know each other.

Non-financial requirements

Approving tre grant for our "Data Projector" project would be helpful for presentation of photographs.

Fit to strategy

This project will raise quality of free photographic content contributed by Czech Wikipedians into Wikimedia projects.

Other benefits

We hope that experience from this workshop will bring more substance to recent discussions about the quality and encyclopedic value of photographs taken by Czech Wikipedians.

Measures of success

Each participant will take quality photographs of at least three previously poorly covered objects that he/she chooses during the workshop. These photos will be obviously available for any Wikimedia project.