TPAC Inclusion Fund 2022

[wareid]

Getting the inclusion Fund applications and information posted in time for TPAC 2022. Work has begun on editing the documentation, revising the form format, and building a dedicated page for the Inclusion Fund information.

[wareid]

TPAC is now over and I believe the funds we dispensed in advance, but @koalie could we do an overview of how this year's went to prepare for the next one?

[koalie]

Hi @wareid !

(I'm catching up with this just now after returning from an 8-week medical leave)

Here are debrief notes I left for ourselves for the future:

• The form needs to ask applicants to be specific about
  • about the anticipated costs,
  • about which groups they're in,
  • about what contributions they wish to make
• We need to clearly ask next time what under-represented community they are applying on behalf of (just one out of 65 answered that question the right way this time.)
• There was too long a gap between August-September 2021 when sponsors were invoiced for their TPAC 2022 donation, and June-July 2022 when Coralie started up the process of regrouping the selection committee. 
• We used Typeform to collect TPAC 2022 Inclusion Fund applications, which is probably more user friendly than WBS, but resulted in a majority of spam.
  • Cost: USD 29/month; Basic plan's limit of 100 responses per month.
  • automatic live integration in a google document is a +
  • only 9 out of 64 applications were from individuals known in our community
  • none of the 55 others were a legitimate application
• There were three TPAC 2022 awardees whose travel and hotel expenses were fully covered (we had a US$ 2,830 fund to start with, sponsored by Igalia, W3C and an anonymous donor.)

I was not at TPAC. Are there comments from this group based on things you heard, or thoughts and considerations you have?