Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Architecture+Feminism 2020 @TTU Lubbock

Comments from WMF

Hello HouseRound, thank you so much for submitting this comprehensive grant request. We are excited with your great promotion strategy and detailed planning of the event! We have reviewed your request and have the following comments and questions.

• You have budgeted expenses to hire a graphic designer. Unfortunately, this expense is not eligible, since the Rapid Grant funds may not currently be used as compensation for people’s time. I kindly ask you to reduce the stipend expenses and update your budget. You can also reallocate this expense to other eligible expenses that you might have.
• In your proposal you’ve stated that you’ll have at least two experienced editors supporting you throughout the event. Would you please update the proposal and add their Wikimedia usernames?
• It’s great to see that this is going to be the third event of Architecture+Feminism series. Could you share with us the links to your past events of Architecture+Feminism?

Thank you again for your contribution to Wikimedia projects! Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 06:34, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Answers from HouseRound

Hello! Thank you for reviewing the application and for leaving these comments and questions. You'll find answers to these inquiries below, and, also in the most recent edit to the Rapid Grant proposal.

• You have budgeted expenses to hire a graphic designer. Unfortunately, this expense is not eligible, since the Rapid Grant funds may not currently be used as compensation for people’s time. I kindly ask you to reduce the stipend expenses and update your budget. You can also reallocate this expense to other eligible expenses that you might have.

Food and canned drink = $200 ($6.66 x 30 people)

Coffee = $25 ($12.50 x 2 bags)

Supplies = $50 (name tags, markers printing costs, Art+Feminism buttons, etc.)

Childcare = 100$ (25$ x 4)

Editor Recruitment Campaign = $150 (Since the event focuses on promoting the visibility of women, POC, and non-binary creatives, we are asking for a stipend to set up a table on campus to attract broader visibility for the event and recruit new editors. We plan to set up a table by a different library each day of the week leading up to the editathon with volunteers handing out event promotional fliers, cookies, and swag to enhance recruitment efforts.)

Speaker = $150 (transportation) (Since the event will map, document, and archive the creative practices of women, POC, and non-binary folks, we are hoping to invite two volunteer guest speakers to give context, talk about lack of representation, and shed light on ongoing research, practice, and activism on gender, sexuality and design. Dora Epstein Jones and Tania Gutierrez Monroy have both expressed interested in speaking, sharing their time and expertise. Dora Epstein Jones, the Chairperson at the Texas Tech University College of Architecture and author of many articles on architecture gender, sex, mobility and criticality. Tania Gutierrez Monroy, Visiting Instructor at LSU, and a Ph.D. candidate at McGill, whose research interests include space as a process, identity politics in sites of war, and gender & architecture. Gutierrez-Monroy’s dissertation examines women’s appropriation of the overlaps between domestic and war spaces during the Mexican Revolution.) Total = $675 USD

• In your proposal you’ve stated that you’ll have at least two experienced editors supporting you throughout the event. Would you please update the proposal and add their Wikimedia usernames?

HouseRound - Brendan Shea, TTU Visiting Instructor

Kweennonot - Noémie Despland Lichtert, TTU Visiting Instructor

Jsalmans1 - Joshua Salmans, MLIS, TTU Outreach & Engagement Librarian / Women's & Gender Studies Liaison

• It’s great to see that this is going to be the third event of Architecture+Feminism series. Could you share with us the links to your past events of Architecture+Feminism?

OTIS - Website / Instagram / Dashboard

USC - Website / Instagram / Dashboard

2426 - Website / Instagram / Dashboard 2019  / Dashboard 2018

Additional comments from WMF

Hello HouseRound, thank you for your thoughtful responses! I have one additional request regarding your budget.

• What does "Editor Recruitment Campaign" expense (150 USD) include? If this expense will be used to compensate people's time, I kindly ask you to remove it from your budget. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 08:05, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Additional responses

Hi DSaroyan_(WMF), thanks again for reviewing the Rapid Grant application and the answers to the initial questions. You'll find a breakdown of the costs associated with the Editor Recruitment Campaign below. Please do note that people's time will not be compensated, all recruiters will be contributing on a volunteer basis.

Tuesday Mar 3 - $15 cookies, $5 buttons (Architecture Library)

Wednesday Mar 4 - $15 cookies, $5 buttons (SW Collection)

Friday Mar 5 - $15 cookies, $5 buttons (Architecture Library)

Saturday Mar 6 - $5 cookies, $20 buttons (University Library East)

Sunday Mar 7 - $5 cookies, $20 buttons (University Library West)

Monday Mar 8 - $15 cookies, $5 buttons (SW Collection)

Tuesday Mar 9 - $15 cookies, $5 buttons (Architecture Library)

• $150 total

Thanks again for following up!

Approved

Hello HouseRound, thank you for providing the detailed breakdown of "Editor Recruitment Campaign" expenses. I am approving your grant request. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 06:58, 7 February 2020 (UTC)