FDC Proposal 2013/Budget/Wiki Loves India

The contest is to celebrate India. To celebrate its culture, its diversity, its beauty. Any photograph related to India can be entered. So far we have seen more than 30,000 photographs of monuments uploaded on Commons thanks to Wiki Loves Monuments India contest. Now we would like to see ANY image about India added to Commons and we are handing out bigger prizes to entice people to participate and donate their photos to Commons. This is a ONE TIME contest to educate people about and promote donating images to Commons on a national scale. We hope to significantly increase India related photographs on Commons through this Contest Campaign.

Implementation

 * We will be calling up for volunteers in early 2014. There will be one person/intern who will be working on this project along with our employee.
 * The core team will be formed by February, and will start working on to frame the entire logistics. * The core team will be closely working with the intern appointed, however they shall only be the decision makers.
 * The intern will either be a technical person or will be a community person, who will either be working on technicalities or on managing the entire contest.
 * The team shall also lookout to find more partners and sponsors. He/She will be paid a fair amount and will also be awarded a certificate.

Impact

 * We expect to receive more educational photos, as compared to Wiki Loves Monuments. This is basically because, most of the WLM participants have been asking us if the contest is only limited to monuments.
 * More people will access and contribute to Wikipedia and its sister projects.
 * We will also be planning to organise a nation-wide photowalk, which will help the community to gain back excitement which was during the WCI.
 * There will be more press coverage, while the Indian community has so far been successful in it, and thus it will not be a surprise.
 * We believe that, other communities shall also replicate the same, and we shall be able to lend our strong support.

Prizes

 * 1st Prize: Camera Worth INR 1 Lakh
 * 2nd Prize x 5: Vouchers INR 30,000. Best Photograph among: A. ARCHITECTURE; B. NATURE; C. CULTURE; D. RURAL INDIA; E. AMONG ALL OTHERS:
 * 3rd Prize x 4: Vouchers INR 15,000. Best photographs from North, East, South and West of India.
 * 4th Prize x 1: INR 12,000 vouchers from Amazon/ or an another international website Best photograph related to India but outside the geographic location of India. This could be anything related to India culturally or politically or some other way.
 * 5th Prize x 39: INR 1,000 vouchers from a website or store, and will be featured in an exhibition.

Cost

 * Total Prizes: 7,96,000
 * Promotional materials: 2,00,000 (includes posters, transportation costs, couriers, website, event launch, etc)
 * Exhibition: 1,00,000 an exhibition to showcase winning photographs - TOP 50