[OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: [Board] Request for support of FOSS4G SotM Oceania community day

Tue Jul 31 06:11:51 PDT 2018

+1 on scheduling an F2F meeting of Conference Comm while in Dar.
I will be there Weds AM (arriving Tues evening) - Saturday PM.

MT

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:34 AM Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll be in Dar, Tuesday to Saturday morning. Let's try to schedule a
> conference committee f2f
>
> Regards
> Steven
>
>
> +44 (0) 7958 924101
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 31 Jul 2018, at 14:02, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de> wrote:
>
> Cool, I guess Steven wil be in Dar as well, so we should find some time
> for this ;-)
>
>
> Till
>
>
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> Am 31.07.2018 um 13:02 schrieb María Arias de Reyna:
>
> Hi,
>
> We already started on FOSS4GE this conversation about future of TGP with
> Steven Feldman and how to escalate it. He has some interesting ideas we
> should discuss.
>
> El mar., 31 jul. 2018 12:56, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> escribió:
>
>> Hi Till,
>>
>> Thanks for this advice, I agree with this plan.  I also think a decision
>> structure for handling TGP must be set up as soon as possible (and if it
>> is not the Board or the Conference Committee, then maybe a new
>> committee/team of volunteers, who manage this TGP process).  -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2018-07-31 6:40 AM, Till Adams wrote:
>> > Dear @Board, @ConfCom
>> >
>> > AFAIK there is still some TGP money left (we spent 10 out of 20k on the
>> > global TGP, but nothing for any regional event yet). I would suggest to
>> > accept this request, as it is not too much money and then use it in
>> > order to promote this as a "sign" to other regional/local event
>> > organizers...
>> >
>> > What we need is a procedure on how to decide on such requests in general
>> > - if we make a frist comes/first-run serves on TGP money, we will
>> > probably run out of money quite early and events earlier in the year are
>> > prefered.
>> >
>> > Perhaps we could get the regional events on requesting for money in
>> > advance before a defined deadline, so we can have an overview on all
>> > regional events that request for TGP money once a year and then decide
>> > on it? Maybe somehow difficult to handle, but in the end the same
>> > procedure as the call for locations for the global event.
>> >
>> > Maybe a point to be discussed in Dar?
>> >
>> > Till
>> >
>> >
>> > Am 30.07.2018 um 17:26 schrieb Jeff McKenna:
>> >> Hi Alex & FOSS4G-SotM Oceania committee,
>> >>
>> >> Please note that the OSGeo Board meeting this Wednesday (maybe
>> >> Thursday your time) has been moved to an hour earlier.
>> >>
>> >> time:
>> >>
>> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2018&month=8&day=1&hour=15&min=0&sec=0
>> >> agenda: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-08-01
>> >>
>> >> -jeff
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 2018-07-08 10:52 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> >>> Hi Alex, John,
>> >>>
>> >>> OSGeo is happy to support community day events such as this; I've
>> >>> added it to the next Board meeting agenda, that will occur on 1st
>> >>> August.  It would be great to have you or John attend the IRC meeting
>> >>> then, to discuss this topic for approval (exact time of the meeting
>> >>> is still to be confirmed):
>> >>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-08-01
>> >>>
>> >>> For others: the request is for 1,475 USD
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks Alex!
>> >>>
>> >>> -jeff
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On 2018-07-08 7:34 AM, Alex Leith wrote:
>> >>>> Dear OSGeo Board members
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I am writing on behalf of the FOSS4G SotM Oceania Conference
>> >>>> Committee. Myself (Alex Leith) and John Bryant are chairs of this
>> >>>> conference organising committee, and we have our inaugural event
>> >>>> planned for November this year in Melbourne, Australia. For more
>> >>>> information, see: https://foss4g-oceania.org/.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> In accordance with the code sprint sponsorship guidelines here:
>> >>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines we would like to
>> >>>> submit an application for sponsorship for our 'Community Day', which
>> >>>> will include code sprints on various OSGeo and related projects, in
>> >>>> addition to mapathons on OpenStreetMap. The specific activities will
>> >>>> be community driven.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Our application document is here:
>> >>>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fKPn5tF8z3edeiidlPBShA5H3xR0mstdKyqG-VwlRrQ/edit?usp=sharing
>> .
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> We would welcome discussion of this sponsorship request, and John
>> >>>> and I can make ourselves available to you for this.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I look forward to hearing from you.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Kind regards,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Alex Leith
>> >>>> FOSS4G SotM Oceania Co-Chair
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