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<p>Jody,</p>
<p>just to clarify this:</p>
<p>- I guess, you mean 6k for 2017, not 2018?<br>
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<p>- are these 6k part of the 2017 budget for global TGP?<br>
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- if so, is it possible to rededicate this money for FOSS4G TGP
2018?<br>
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Thanks for your fast reply,<br>
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Till<br>
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<div>Till you have 6k from 2018 avaialble; since this was
sponsored funds it should carry over and be used for
conference committee planning. Does this change the amount
requested for TGP supporting osgeo events?<br>
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aside: I usually reference FOSS4G TGP, supporting LOC, and
Global TGP supporting our events and activities world wide<br>
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<p>Dear board,</p>
thanks for reaching out to us for our budget plans for
2018. The only budget the conference committees requests
are funds for the travel grant programme (TGP). In general
we would request the board to raise our resources as
follows:<br>
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- 20k US$ for TGP for global FOSS4G<br>
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- 10k US$ for other TGP activities<br>
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(For the latter we still owe a concept, how to perform
this, it's on my list).<br>
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Why raising TGP for FOSS4G? As you all noticed, there have
been long discussions on "how to enable as many attendees
as possible to join a global FOSS4G" in the past and I
think it's still going on. One focus on this have been
fees for the conference itself, but looking over the total
costs including flight, accommodation, entrance fee and
food, it is clear, that joining a FOSS4G, depending on
where it is, can easily cause costs up to 3k US$ and even
more.<br>
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If we as foundation really want to enable more people to
join these events, we have to put more energy and money in
here. I think, the success-stories of the past TGP's are
good examples for this.<br>
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We as Conference Committee are especially aware of the TGP
and put an emphasis on this topic by encouraging the teams
of future FOSS4G's to explain how they want to implement
the TGP and what they can/are willing contribute to it
(starting crowd fundings, offer reduced fees for grantees
or whatever).<br>
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I'd suggest the following:<br>
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Raise the TGP for global FOSS4G's to 20k US$, if the LOC's<br>
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- offer reduced fees for the TGP (e.g. Early Bird for all
grantees, as TGP normally decides later)<br>
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- make efforts to raise the budget by other activities
such as crowd funding and/or requesting community
members/participants to pay a surplus (e.g.)<br>
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For 2018 I think that could be quite easy by just
rededicating the not-used 10k US$ from our 2017 budget,
that were reserved for non-global FOSS4G TGP's, as there
haven't been any ;-)<br>
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If a general raise seems to be difficult, I'd like to
request at least to raise the funds for TGP for the "other
regions" conference, as they are prone to attract people
from parts of the world, where we are not that strong as
in Europe or NA. I think the Dar conference is a good
example for this.<br>
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09.11.2017 um 09:10 schrieb María Arias de Reyna:<br>
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<div>I am reaching you (on bcc) because you are
the official contact of one of the commitees of
OSGeo: <a
href="http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.osgeo.org/<wbr>content/foundation/board_and_<wbr>officers.html</a></div>
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<div>We are trying to collect the budget requests
for each commitee before the next board meeting
(21st of November) to make sure we can approve
them before the start of the year. If your
commitee has any request for budget for 2018,
this is the time and place to do so.</div>
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<div>To send it, you can either answer this email
or send the budget directly to the board mailing
list. Either way, it will end up in the board
mailing list.</div>
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<div>Some resources that may help you on this
task:<br>
* <a
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2017"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/<wbr>wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2017</a></div>
<div> * <a
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2018"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/<wbr>wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2018</a></div>
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<div>At this moment (next two weeks) it doesn't
have to be very detailed (although it will help
us). We just need to know your plans for next
year to make sure we can allocate money for all
of our needs. And if we can't, we need to
discuss priorities. </div>
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<div>If you have any questions, don't hesitate to
ask. Please, contact your fellow commitee
members to make sure nothing important is
missing on your budget request.</div>
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<div>Thanks for your collaboration,</div>
<div>María.</div>
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