<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We in Boston very much appreciate this discussion and advice. Just a couple of quick points:</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><ul style=""><li style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Our preliminary budget includes allowances for free/discounted passes, ranging from sponsors, to LOC members, to student/volunteers.</font></li><li style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">We are very interested in having a travel and/or "free pass" grant program and will definitely be communicating with conference dev as needs and opportunities become clearer. We very much want diverse participation including geographic, ethnic and economic means diversity.</font></li><li style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">The best way to have a more generous grant program is to have more paying customers. We will be vigorous in seeking new, paying attendees and sponsors.</font></li></ul><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">We will continue to pay close attention to these discussions...Thanks again...</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">On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:27 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I agree with the position of Venka. Moreover in my opinion conferences have to be as much as possible diverse and inclusive. This means that we need to reduce costs in such a way that everybody, who is interested, can come. </div>
<div>Best regards to All of You!</div>
<div>Maria </div>
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From: Venka <<a href="mailto:venka.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">venka.osgeo@gmail.com</a>> <br>
Date: 06/09/2016 04:19 (GMT+01:00) <br>
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Subject: Re: [Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] Conference Committee F2F meeting <br>
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<div>Hi Guidi and all,<br>
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On 2016/08/26 1:18, Guido Stein wrote:<br>
> I have added my notes and action items from the meeting on the wiki.<br>
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> <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee_F2F_2016" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/<wbr>Conference_Committee_F2F_2016</a><br>
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Thanks for your notes of the meeting.<br>
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"Rest of World years should target a minimum of a break with a lower <br>
expectation of the share of surplus being returned to OSGeo. A larger <br>
share of any surplus should be reinvested into local OSGeo activities."<br>
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Regarding the note above, such special arrangement should apply<br>
only when FOSS4G is organized in/by communities of the<br>
Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies as defined by the World Bank and <br>
WHO [1]. Cost of living and PPP [2] is considerable different in<br>
Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies and thereby the conference fee<br>
could be considerably lower.<br>
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FOSS4G-2015 in Seoul adopted a special pricing for participants for<br>
Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies, which could be adopted in future<br>
conferences.<br>
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"Rest of the World" would surely not include high income countries <br>
listed in [1], I think.<br>
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Best<br>
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Venka<br>
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[1] <a href="https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519" target="_blank">https://datahelpdesk.<wbr>worldbank.org/knowledgebase/<wbr>articles/906519</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Purchasing_power_parity</a><br>
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> Hope that this helps,<br>
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> Guido<br>
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:58 PM Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" target="_blank">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Reminder<br>
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>> Face to face meeting tomorrow at 16.00-17.00<br>
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>> Suggest we meet at the reception desk and the funds somewhere to sit<br>
>> (perhaps by the river?)<br>
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>> Agenda at <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee_F2F_2016" target="_blank">
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/<wbr>Conference_Committee_F2F_2016</a><br>
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>> Regards<br>
>> Steven<br>
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