Hi all,

Were there any news regarding the BeyondTheNet grant application?

Personally I would be willing to contribute to a "CNSIG-wide"
application which could be used as a "template" from local chapters and
also other possible opportunities for funding in the future. Such a
template could be actually a nice contribution of the CNSIG.

For this, I will be available the week of the battle of the mesh, May
7-13 (from May 7-9 I will be at home on my computer) and in Berlin we
could perhaps discuss some of the points with the CNSIGers face-to-face.

Here is a pad to organize the work :-)

https://pad.codigosur.org/CNSIG_beyond-the-net

Perhaps to add on the top of the pad the names of those interested and
create a smaller e-mail list to coordinate?

Best,

Panos.

On 13.04.2018 04:06, Nicolas Pace wrote:
> Hi Fellows,
>
> The BeyondTheNet Medium and Large Projects call is open till 2018-05-15
> , so we have aproximately one month to present proposals, both at the
> local chapters and as a SIG:
> https://internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/medium-large-scale-projects/
>
> 25 projects out of ~200 projects were accepted last year based on
> estimations done using the data here:
> https://www.internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/grants/
> And of those, 7 were about CN related topics.
>
> Access and Development is one of the key areas for this call, and this
> makes projects associated with Community Networks of special interest,
> and of course the other key areas: Standards, Policy and Enabling
> sustainable development.
>
> Discussing with NicoE we see that this a big opportunity for us as
> Group of CNs speaking by themselves:
> * a chance for all of us to get an important push by this fund
> * an opportunity for the CNSIG to show that we represent the interests
> of the Communities, and to help the Local Chapters acknowledge and
> validate this representation
> * the chance to coordinate efforts among ourselves to augment our
> chance to do impact
> * a way for us to speak strongly about what are our needs and our way
> of dealing with them
>
> For that, would like to propose:
> * let each other know who wants to participate and on what you might be
> interested in participating
> * if possible, work together on common areas
> * split projects in network deployment kickstart/scaling and local
> capacity building projects (more tightly coupled to a Chapter), and
> technology development projects (more associated to a collective
> benefit, would say to the whole SIG).
> * do endorcement letters for all projects that came from members of the
> cnsig
> * announce in the cnsig.info page the projects that have been submitted
>
> What do you think?
>
> Also, would like to send this Questions to ask to Beyond The Net fund
> (Ilda I guesS):
> * Is there a minimum or maximum amount of projects going to be approved
> for each chapter/SIG? This will allow us to strategize properly how to
> ask for the funds.
> * Is there a minimum or maximum amount of projects going to be approved
> for each Focus Area (CN, Standards, Policy, Sustainability) per
> Chapter/SIG? That will allow us to push the idea that CNSIG endorsed
> projects should be approved.
> * Can global actors work together in proposals and present them in
> different regions for applying them in their respective regions? That
> will allow us to write proposals together instead of individually, and
> do a collective plan that has local implementation.
>
> Regards,
>
> FYI The list of presented projects, and rejection/approval, can be seen
> here:
> https://www.internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/grants/applications/
> Apparently only June-2017 were loaded there.
>
>

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