Talk:Microgrants/Microgrants 2020/Proposal/Disable Mapping (Dwelling Spaces and Palliatives )
This proposal is still in a draft state. If you wish to be considered, please complete the proposal and change the status to proposed. If you need help please let us know Glassman (talk) 14:52, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
Thoughts
The project is excessively broad - I see 13 or 14 different top level tasks. This is what is sometimes called a scattershot approach. Such approaches lose detail and persuasiveness and they especially do not inspire confidence in the ability of the applicant to deliver on all (or any) of them.
A better approach is to carefully examine the criteria for the micro-grant and see what the donor is looking for. Then find the one task in your bucket of 13 tasks that best matches the donor's requirements. Work out what you need to do to make just that one thing happen - especially in terms of how many people you need to make it happen, what equipment or resources they need and how many people will be impacted by the project. The donor wants to know that you will do the right sort of project and wants to know that you will succeed and deliver on your promise in the proposal. What the donor wants is this:
We want to understand ... why this will help you to scale your community mapping efforts.
It is recommended that this supports mission of the OSM Foundation and your local community.
You can make a project to help the disabled, but if it does not clearly contribute to scaling community mapping efforts and does not support the mission of the OSM Foundation and the local community it will not be well received. So turn it around. Design a project that builds the OSM mapping community, in which people will be recruited, they will learn about OSM and as their first training exercise they will do good work by mapping facilities for the disabled. And just that. The other 12 scattershot things can be left out.