Grants:TPS/che/Wikimania/2014/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2014!

Participant

User:che

Participant connections

I appreciate the opportunity to meet WMF grantmaking team, and being able to understand their views of grant programs and the focus on impact these programs (should) have. Furthermore, I've met a few people who might be interested in using our grant tracker software, which might help us be useful to more people.

Outcome

No much, at the moment. But there are a couple of "almosts":

I wrote about ~46 KB of notes from every session I attended on our chapter's internal wiki, with reaction from 5 other people, so I'm sure some people have actually read it. I'd like to make a public blog post out of it in near future.
I was going to create another demo installation of our tracker for one person who was intereseted in trzing it out, but got a bit delayed by updating it to recent version of used framework.
I plan to make a learning pattern from our mediagrant project, since I found out the structure is actually quite complex and there are no resources clearly describing it anywhere.

Finances

flight and accommodation were directly paid by WMF
Heathrow Express (LHR to Paddington Station and back) -- 28.90 GBP
London Underground via Oyster Card -- 4.40 GBP
- actually bought card for 15 GBP, then refilled 10 GBP, returned and got 13.60 GBP back, but that includes 7 GBP for personal stuff
Digging into my records and memory it looks like I spent 37.86 GBP of cash in London, which includes 5.85 GBP for postcards, leaving 32.01 GBP which I spent on food in London, IIRC.

Documentation sent:

Heathrow Express Ticket Confirmation
Oyster Card Transaction History
Bank Account Transaction History

Amount left over

I received 3824.29 CZK (141 EUR) from WMF, from which:

204 CZK went to the bank for processing the transaction
1031 CZK was the 28.90 GPB payment for Heathrow Express
157.12 CZK went for the Underground (that was 4.40 GBP used from 15 GBP transaction which amounted to 535.65 CZK)
1214.12 CZK I paid for small cash stuff (32.01 GBP our of 50 GBP ATM withdrawal which cost me 1787.53 + 108.94 = 1896.47 CZK)

In total it look like I spent 2606.24 CZK in London, so unless incidentals allowance works in a way that I can keep regardless of whether it is spent I now have 1218.05 CZK left.