Grants:TPS/Psubhashish/PyCon2014

Basic information

Project details

Official project name: PyCon2014, Montréal, Canada
Project start date (include month, day, and year): 9 April 2014
Project completion date (include month, day, and year): 17 April 2014
Please describe the project in 1–2 sentences: PyCon is an annual gathering of python programmers across the world. The open-source communities contributing to various project including majority of the Wikimedia projects get to meet each other, take part in various community building activities, hackathons, listen to project related talks and collaborate to enhance FOSS projects. Over these 9 days I am aiming to attend talks and discussions and community building practices that will directly help me to spearhead various projects in the Indic language Wikimedia and other open source communities in the Indian subcontinent.

Financial details

Currency requested: INR
Amount requested in currency requested: 189773.25
Equivalent amount in US$ on the date of this submission: US$3007.5
List the exchange rate used to calculate the amount listed in US$: US$63.10 per INR

Project lead details

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Are you an organization, an individual, or an individual submitting on behalf of a group?: INDIVIDUAL
Project lead name: SUBHASHISH PANIGRAHI
Project lead username or email: Psubhashish
Project lead title (position), if any

Goals and measures of success

Project goal

Please briefly describe what will be accomplished if the project is successful.

Project goal: The learning from the technical talks, discussions and PyThon workshops will help me support the Indic language open source communities (Wikimedia communities in particular), build tools for analysis and assessment of WikiProjects, training communities to organize technical and community building events, designing cross community level projects focused on Indic languages.

Measures of success

Please provide a list of measurable criteria that will be used determine how successful the project is. You will need to report on the success of the project according to these measures after the project is completed.

Measures of success: I will be able to train at least two open source communities in a quarter to conduct Python based workshops and will continue to build capacity among communities in India.

Project scope and activities

This section describes what will happen if this project is funded. Who will do what, and when?

List of activities: Attending PyCon 2014 at Montréal, interacting with diverse communities, audio-visual documentation of some of the notable speakers and contributors and learning community building practices, community communications.

Budget and resources

Please provide a detailed breakdown of project expenses according to the instructions here.

Grantees are subject to line-item scrutiny of expenses. Changes to the approved budget beyond 10% in any category must be approved in advance.

Project budget table

Number	Category	Item description	Unit	Number of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	Travel	Air fair	1	1	US$1505	US$1505	USD	Economy flight from Bangalore to Montréal and back
2	Hotel accommodation	Accommodation in one of the budget hotels listed in the Pycon accomodation support page.	1 Night	10	US$152.05 appx. ($169 CAD/night (plus tax))	US$1520.5	USD	Onwards and return flight

Total cost of project: US$3007.5

Total amount requested from the Project and Event Grants program: US$3007.5

Additional sources of revenue that may fund part of this project, and amounts funded

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Requests for non-financial assistance

Resources

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Impact

In the sections below, please describe how the project is related to the Wikimedia mission and Wikimedia's strategic priorities.

Fit to strategy

How will this project support the key organizational objectives of

increasing reach (more people will access or contribute to Wikipedia or our other projects), participation (more people actually contributing), quality (more content, more useful content, or higher-quality content), credibility (more trust in our projects), organizational maturity and effectiveness (how it will move you or the Wikimedia community forward), or financial sustainability (how it will help you achieve more in the long run)?

This statement should address at least one of the strategic priorities listed here specifically. See Project and Event Grants program criteria for decisionmaking.: This conference will enable me to support MediWiki and other open source contributors to organize hackathons, community meetups, sprints for documentation, translations and building tools and organizing community outreach capacity building programs (like Train-The-Trainer programs)

Benefits

If the project will benefit a specific online community, please tell us.: This will directly benefit MediaWiki communities who use python for building bots, tools, etc. and other open source communities.

Please provide a brief statement about how the project is related to other work in the Wikimedia movement. For example, does the project fit into a work area such as GLAM, education, organizational development, editor retention, or outreach?: This project falls into Education and Outreach as it has both community building and outreach activities as key components.

If successful, will the project have the potential to be replicated successfully by other individuals, groups, or organizations? Please explain how in 1–2 sentences.: The experience will certainly help me to organize more training workshops for open source and open knowledge contributors, building audio/video tutorials in regional languages, capacity building for potential contributors to lead outreach.

Please list other benefits to the movement here.: My active participation will encourage more Wikimedians to take part in such community events beyond boarders and share knowledge and learning and also organizing small to large scale outreach and community building events.