<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i>Repeating note sent to Conference Dev in reply to Jody's comment for the Board:</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Understood Jody.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I am simply reporting what we feel we are capable of doing. We will absolutely follow the wishes of Conference Dev and the Board and we understand and agree with the importance of "simplicity" and repeatability.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We remain on standby and look forward to watching this take further shape.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">MT</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for the update. <br><br>The board has done our bit with travel grant budget and mandate. <br><br>Speaking for myself (not OSGeo or conference committee) I would prefer if we stick with early bird discount pricing to avoid setting a complicated precedent for subsequent events to follow. <br><br>If the LOC is feeling confident you can donate or credit the travel grant program an appropriate amount. <br><br>I know on the books it looks the same, but this way we allow the travel grants to reach more people this year while avoiding setting a moving target for fundraising.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:30 PM Michael Terner <<a href="mailto:mgt@appgeo.com" target="_blank">mgt@appgeo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Just a couple of updates from Boston:</div><div class="gmail_default"><ol><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Today we launched our "<a href="http://2017.foss4g.org/volunteer/" target="_blank">call for volunteers</a>" which provides another "more affordable" means of covering registration.</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">With the success of our early bird registration, the Boston team is comfortable providing full conference registrations to travel grant recipients for $500 (a discount below Early Bird) for recipients who aren't applying/accepted as a volunteer. If/when our registration momentum increases, we are hopeful we may be able to do more.</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">We are maintaining a list of people who have inquired about our Travel Grant program and we are ready to launch an application page off of our website, or provide a link to an OSGeo page on applying for a travel grant.</font></li></ol><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">We look forward to hearing how the Board and Conference Dev deliberations are going and are ready to assist when needed...</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">MT</font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It has now been another week. I am writing up sponsor press releases, and would love to have something to link to for this travel grant program.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-7233281461634539958m_-4176433390078010832m_7875754679185903591gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 May 2017 at 12:43, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am sure we are all getting lots of interest above travel grants for foss4g. We managed to pass two motions last week - is anyone from the conference committee around to acknowledge the change of scope/budget?<div><br></div><div>I would like to confirm we have done our bit as the osgeo board, and ask if there is anything more we should be doing. </div><span class="m_-7233281461634539958m_-4176433390078010832HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="m_-7233281461634539958m_-4176433390078010832m_7875754679185903591HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">--<div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></font></span></font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>
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