 on air. Good day everyone, good morning, good afternoon, and good night to wherever you are. Today we will be speaking about physical sponsorships. So a quick word of house maintenance before we get actually started. I'm Stefan, this is my face. I will switch quickly to a screen share and I'm talking directly into the chat so I can see them fairly quickly. Otherwise, we have a chance that there'll be a rather, how could I say, awkward moment between the moment I finish my speech and the moment I can read your questions and access them. So as soon as something crosses your mind, please type in the chat and now we'll get ready to start. So you are Wikimediants, I expect, and welcome to Wikimania. I hope you're enjoying the few talks you've had already and looking forward to the next few ones. There's a very cool one after me, I know. And I'll introduce myself. I'm the other Qwix guy, which means I'm the guy that doesn't code at Qwix because Qwix is a piece of software that allows people to access Wikipedia when there's no internet access. Also, more things than Wikipedia, but you know, every single Wikipedia, but also Wikicoats, Wikiversity, all the Wikimedia projects, we copy them and we package them so they can be like highly compressed and you can actually store the whole thing onto your cell phone, no matter what they are, be it like Wikipedia in Hindi, Wikipedia in Arabic, in French, in English, it does not matter. We are based in Switzerland, which is slightly useful for the rest of my talk. And if you have any question because I speak too fast or because maybe some things were not clear enough, feel free to ask in the chat or send me an email to Stefan at qwix.org. Also contact at qwix.org works or hello at qwix.org. If you want to find me, you will find me. All right. So what are fiscal sponsorships? This is what we're going to see. We see what they are, what they can do for you, how, what you can bring to the table to make it work, like what is it that you need or what do you need to do to get it done. And what does not work, like what are the cases where you probably don't want to get into a fiscal sponsorship because they wouldn't work with the foundation. So a fiscal sponsorship, according to Wikipedia, it's the practice of non-profit organizations such as qwix to offer their legal and taxism status to people or to groups that are running a project somewhere and that need to receive a grant. Basically, what this means is that we provide admin support. So you do your project and we do the registrations, we do the payments essentially. And in most places where we've been working with people needing fiscal sponsorship, it's because if you receive money from a non-profit, then that money needs to be received from another non-profit. So we save you the trouble of trying to register your own specific project because in some countries that's a bit too much effort for just like running edithetans or things like this or photo workshops. So you just give qwix address and everyone's happy. But concretely, how does it work really? Okay, so let's say you have a great idea. You want to run a series of edithetans around your country, but you need money to pay for the trips, the food, the actual rooms, maybe some internet connection, and you ask a grant to the WMF. You can actually ask a grant from anyone. It's not just the WMF, but again, this is Wikimedia. So we suspect that you'll be asking the Wikimedia Foundation. You make your proposal on meta and it's very clear and you have a budget and it says, okay, I need this and that and I will get this and that. And I have a fiscal sponsor which is qwix. And then Wikimedia looks at it and they'll be like, okay, it sounds like a good project. We will fund the grant and we will send them money to qwix. So the money arrives in Switzerland and you in your country, wherever you are in the world, you run your project. So you rent the rooms, you call people, you make some noise, a come and edit Wikipedia. And then of course comes the time when you need to pay those bills. So either you need to be reimbursed for your travels or you need to pay for the rooms that you rented or maybe you bought a computer or maybe if it's a very large project, actually, there's staff salary that is involved. As in like, you know, every month you get a little something for the work you done or pick something depends. Then that's when qwix comes to play, we pay those bills or we reimburse you if it's travel. Like you send us a copy, you take a picture of your train ticket and then we reimburse you for the price of a train ticket and we send the money directly to your account and there's no more paperwork than this to do. The only paperwork is here. And I took a very clear example. So let's say we have the North Pole wiki user group running a data tents in the North Pole. And Santa Claus is actually the owner of the project, but it could be Santa Claus and kind of his team. I don't care. We would have 10 people reimburse. It's no problem. The whole team. So Santa Claus is running as a data tent and he wanted to bring some goodies for the kids. Also the food for the reindeer is that he had to bring his material and obviously he's renting a factory to build all those nice little presents for the kids and run the data tent. So the presents for the kids he bought in Angola, I think, and he paid in Kwanzaa. I'm just giving different currencies to tell you that it's no problem. We've seen quite a few people living in one country but then buying something off Amazon or Facebook and then they pay in US dollars even though in their own country, I mean, everyone's got their own currency. It doesn't really matter because you're paying Kwanzaa in Aruba and Florian or New England or US dollars. You just put the conversion rate and at the end of the day, if you want to be paid in US dollars or euros or whatever, then it will be translating to the sentiment. So Santa Claus made his thing and or he directly sent us the bill for the rental of the room. It really depends. And then we will pay those $1,705 to his account and then Santa Claus is done. He's run his project. He can do the matrix for the Wikimedia Foundation but there's no other paperwork that is needed from him. Basically the whole purpose of this paper is just to make a list of the money he will get back and his bank account number so we can send it to him. That's about it. So as I said, minimal paperwork, no registration needed with the government because QX does it and we're certified in a non-profit. The Wikimedia Foundation covers the cost associated with the fiscal sponsorship. So you just add 10% at the end of what you need and that's the standard thing and they don't care anymore. And we actually also pay for staff salaries and as you can see I put a little asteriskness to it because if you are as part of your project considered as an employee of the project, well you still need to pay taxes in your country so you need to take part of that part of the admin. But otherwise anything else payments is being managed by us. And that's when I remind you that if you have questions you should put them in the chat because between the moment I'm speaking right now and the moment you will hear me there's one or two minutes and we're not too far from the end of the presentation already because as you see it's pretty pretty simple. The only thing I need to discuss is the bot. There's always a catch. So there's always a bot. And what are the situations where fiscal sponsorships won't work? There's actually two really and I would say even just one. The main reason why you shouldn't go into fiscal sponsorship is whether you but most likely your country is under some sort of restrictions. So luckily there aren't too many like days mostly like North Korea, Russia, Iran. When I say you if you're a listed terrorist we probably cannot send you money but I don't expect this to happen. You never know. I mean lots of Wikimedians but I expect not and that's about it. Also listed so we cannot send money from wherever and particularly not the Wikimedia Foundation that's specifically strict, that's actually stricter than us Kiwis being in Switzerland because they are Americans and it is what it is and they cannot send even indirectly money to countries with the US government as a beef. The only other reason where there could be an issue is if you need to plan on buying online vouchers and you need to use a credit card. If you don't have a credit card we cannot use our own credit card because we found out the hard way that in many countries it doesn't work like I'll give you a concrete example. Someone was based in Bangladesh and he said okay I'm going to send vouchers to local Amazon India. So there was Amazon which is a global company but Amazon India doesn't accept credit cards that are not from the country that are not from Indian citizens. So we had to work something out with people we knew but the end of the day it was just too much effort so the way we'll bypass the problem is that you find someone with a credit card and we will pay them back but that's the only thing you cannot use our credit card but otherwise if we need to pay I don't know a website designer because you had a new website you send us the bill and we pay that person directly no problem so just don't be in a country that you know manufactures bombs and send them to America that's the bottom line. We have some experience with fiscal responsibility quite a few cool very very cool groups actually people are really we like. We're the heritage user group they're based in France and Morocco so in their case we paid for Facebook ads for a website design I believe and now they have a project manager or two. There may be an app that can be used for GLAMs so keep your eyes peeled if you're interested in working with GLAMs because there will be some very very cool product coming out of them. We're community members of Arusha they're running a bunch of dictators and train the trainers so we held them thought that a much smaller project which was the Arabic Wikidays but it worked as well we paid for graphic design I believe West Bengal user group vouchers for a contest it was Wiki Loves oh no that's the Wiki Loves women South Asia where we paid for vouchers and West Bengal we're paying computer travel transport editance and all those things as you can see there's a whole range of activities again the bottom line is that we're there to cover you back you do your project and we're behind and this is the end of my talk already it's a lightning talk and for reason again if you want to contact me afterwards feel free to reach out Stefan at kiwigs.org or find me through the website or find me on on met problem I'm going back to my camera I hope you can see me I can see some of you hello and I'll try to read the questions so I have a very small screen oops I'm at the only one not seeing any presentation happening no it wasn't okay well it is not on and there's another part I forgot to mention that one and I oh Alex hello and ex long time no see and yes as Mike Peel says there are other fiscal sponsors available Kiwigs is just one of them speak with the Wikimedia Foundation they know all of us they probably will know which one is better for your region of country because I mean I'm based in Switzerland so I kind of think I'm the center of the world at least time zone wise I can reach out to more or less everywhere but there are groups that are based in Asia there are groups that are based in South America try to speak with Janice at the Wikimedia Foundation she would be the one to know all the team is super helpful there are great people so really feel free to to ping them ask questions do not be shy the Wikimedia Foundation grant process is actually very well run and I said this from experience and comparison with others so ask questions to me if you want something informal or directly to them it will be okay I see another thank you well I thank you and I will wait another few seconds to see if there are more questions I actually have two minutes so there will be two minutes of more questions I would just spend the time awkwardly dancing and I cannot play elevator music sadly but I had a very good compilation and we'll see and I'm done no dancing I would actually appreciate if commenters would comment on my dancing abilities you know it's kind of nice I'm putting an effort here people all right there's 50 seconds left no other questions I take it as a wrap so thank you very much again and I shall be waiting for your email so your grant proposals we speak a lot with the foundation so there's always a big discussion thank you very much I cannot read your name Ezekiel thank you for okay yeah well next wikimedia there will be you know live sessions and we'll be dancing you'll be my first dance Ezekiel make my words all right everyone I don't know how to disconnect so I'll just press on disconnect and I wish you a great day and a great rest of wikimedia bye