ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER FOR THE WEEK 12/2014 

This is AYY’s association newsletter for the week 12/2014. If you want to receive AYY’s association newsletter to your e-mail, please subscribe at http://list.ayy.fi/mailman/listinfo/yhdistykset

The application period for the operating grant and the submitting of association notices has begun. You can fill out the application or the association notice until the end of March. Also remember to make the Otax account admin report!

CONTENT OF THE NEWSLETTER

1. Application period for the operating grant and the submitting of association notices has begun

2. wappu.fi site is looking for events

3. Second application round of TTE-Fund in 2014 is open!

4. Otax account admin reports must be submitted by 29 March

 

1. APPLICATION PERIOD FOR THE OPERATING GRANT AND THE SUBMITTING OF ASSOCIATION NOTICES HAS BEGUN

The submitting of AYY’s association notices and the application period for the operating grant has begun. The form can be filled out at https://lomake.ayy.fi/yhdistykset/ayyn-toiminta-avustushakemus-2014/ . The form will close at 11.59pm on 31 March. All associations in the register must fill out the association notice. If the association notice is not submitted in two consecutive years, the association will be removed from AYY’s association register. All associations approved in the first list of AYY’s association register may apply for the operating grant.

For the association notice, you will need the annual report, action plan, list of association officials and the association rules. In order to apply for the operating grant, you will also need the budget, balance sheet, income statement and information about grants that your association has received in the past two years. In addition, your association may also apply for an increased operating grant, which is usually granted for one-time special events or projects during the year. Further information on the allocated grants is available at /apurahat-yhdistyksille/, which includes the scoring model used for the allocation of the operating grants and the grant amounts of the previous year. You can have a look at the form from the previous year: /wp-content/uploads/Avustushakulomake-2013.pdf (opens as PDF file).

The prerequisite for the operating grant is the association profile at AYY.fi, and the associations are responsible for updating their profiles. If you have lost your user name or otherwise need help with updating your profile, you can send e-mail to jarjestoasiat@ayy.fi. Please fill out the form carefully and reserve enough time to fill it out. Operating grants are allocated based only on the information in the form.

You can receive additional information and help with the association notice and the operating grant application from the organisation sector, which can be reached at jarjestoasiat@ayy.fi. You can also contact the organisation specialist by phone at 050 520 9442. The best time to reach the organisation specialist by phone is on weekdays from 10am to 2pm.

 

2. WAPPU.FI SITE IS LOOKING FOR EVENTS

May Day is approaching and traditionally the wappu.fi site has been opened. The site gathers together all May Day related events within our community, so that it is as easy as possible to find interesting events and participate in them.

This is an invitation to you: please add your association’s events to the site. Even if the details of your event have not been confirmed yet, please add at least a dummy, so that everyone can take down the date. Event information can be easily updated later after you have registered your user name and password when creating the event. Events will not appear immediately in the calendar but will be added there as soon as possible.

So please add your event during next week (week 12): the site will be advertised on the following week.

If the site does not work or if you have any questions, you can contact administrators via e-mail: webmaster@ayy.fi

 

3. SECOND APPLICATION ROUND OF TTE-FUND IN 2014 IS OPEN!

The second application round of TTE-Fund in 2014 is open! The fund may grant financial aid for all AYY members and the association within it. TTE-Fund supports visible activities that reach for the stars and make other people excited.

You can apply for grants from TTE-Fund in two ways: through the application rounds arranged approximately three times a year and through the continuous application period which is open during the academic terms. During the continuous application period, you can apply for the grants with the maximum of €1,000, whereas the amount of project grants during the actual application rounds is not limited.

Second application round of 2014 will end on Sunday, 23 March 2014, at 11.59pm. Instructions for the application and its attachments are available on the website of the fund at http://tter.ayy.fi/. The grant can be applied for with an online form which is available at: https://lomake.ayy.fi/tter/hakulomake/

Deadlines for the application rounds of year 2014 and other additional information is available on TTE-Fund’s website at http://tter.ayy.fi/. Also check out the facebook site at www.facebook.com/tterahasto.

 

4. OTAX ACCOUNT ADMIN REPORTS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 29 MARCH

Deadline for Otax account admin report is 29 March. Accounts without reported admin will be locked on 1 Apr and sites disabled at the end of April.

Please update your PHP-applications to the latest versions and then fill in the admin report form. Please remember to mention which applications and versions you have. Clean up unnecessary keys from .ssh/authorized_keys.

You can submit the report at http://yhdistykset.ayy.fi/yllapitajailmoitus/ – Leave your report in time and fill it in carefully.

Other notes about Otax:

• phpMyAdmin will answer from ayy.fi connections only, ./:80/phpmyadmin/. Use SSH tunneling and provided phpMyAdmin instead of running your own version of it.
• If your site needs htaccess rewrites, please contact us and we’ll add AllowOverride FileInfo to vhost configuration.
• We are testing Python-support with mod_wsgi. If you want to run WSGI compatible Python applications in Otax, please contact tietotekniikka@ayy.fi.

 

WOULD YOU LIKE TO INCLUDE YOUR OWN NEWS IN THIS NEWSLETTER?

Please send a brief text by Wednesday, 10am, to the address jarjestoasiat@ayy.fi. The news will be translated so you can submit your text in one language. The content of the newsletter is ultimately edited by AYY’s Organisation and Communications Specialist Kati Penttinen (kati.penttinen@ayy.fi, tel: 050 520 9442).