<div dir="ltr">-1<div><br></div><div>My vote is motivated by a series of reasons that took me to veto this motion.</div><div><br></div><div>1) The board has not been provided with sufficient information regarding past events to evaluate the current request</div><div>(I need to see a summary for each past event of: seed money, guarantees, fee, total expenses, total income, profit, OSGeo revenue)</div><div><br></div><div>2) I don't think OSGeo should be exposed for more then 1 FOSS4G event at the same time: it increase the risks and 1 year for event organization I believe is enough. (Next time it could be 100k * 2)</div><div><br></div><div>3) The 2015 FOSS4G event relies on a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px">USD </span>40,000 seed money which is also the OSGeo guarantee. We know from past experiences that FOSS4G is more risky when organized outside Europe or USA, nevetheless we didn't provided such a guarantee in 2015, thus to be fair I don't think we shall provide it now without a deep discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>4) Finally (this is more a my common sense evaluation) I don't think it is raccomandable to take big budget decisions that may affect the coming board members activities just one week before of the elections. </div><div><br></div><div>I strongly believe that this decision, involving such a great amount of money, should be postponed and submitted to the new board after the elections and only having a clear vision of what was the procedure followed in the past years. In fact, this decision will draw the line to be followed in the future for every international FOSS4G events.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For the above mentioned motivations, acknowledging the impelling need of money of 2016 FOSS4G organizers, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px">I propose to assign to </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px">the Bonn local committee the amount of </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px">USD 40,000</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px"> after the signing of a</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8000001907349px"> </span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">funding agreement identical to the one approved by the OSGeo board and signed by the OSGeo president and the Chair of FOSS4G 2015 for the Seoul event.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Future amendment could be possible if approved an signed by the two parties.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Maxi</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-08-26 16:54 GMT+02:00 Michael Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">+1<br>
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Mike<br>
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On 8/26/15, 10:49 AM, "Jorge Sanz" <<a href="mailto:board-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">board-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> on<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">behalf of <a href="mailto:jsanz@osgeo.org">jsanz@osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>+1<br>
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>2015-08-26 15:52 GMT+02:00 Bart van den Eijnden <<a href="mailto:bartvde@osgis.nl">bartvde@osgis.nl</a>>:<br>
>> Thanks for moving this Jeff.<br>
>><br>
>> +1<br>
>><br>
>> Bart<br>
>><br>
>>> On 26 Aug 2015, at 15:49, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>><br>
>>>wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Board,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I've spoken with Till this morning and this is time sensitive. Please<br>
>>>respond within 2 business days.<br>
>>><br>
>>> ***<br>
>>> Motion: Set aside 100k euros for the guarantee of the FOSS4G 2016<br>
>>>event in Bonn, and to provide 50k euros from that amount, to the Bonn<br>
>>>local committee as seed funding. Terms of the agreement will be put<br>
>>>into writing and signed by the chair of 2016 and OSGeo, and approved by<br>
>>>the OSGeo Board.<br>
>>> ***<br>
>>><br>
>>> This vote will help allow Till to start signing contracts etc.<br>
>>><br>
>>> -jeff<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
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