<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ensuring participation to all that wish to come is one of the core principles of FOSS4G 2018 - the below example being a strong human face to this. I feel that the balance of responsibility for travel grants does currently rest on the LOCs of FOSS4Gs, potentially at Boston we can have a face to face with the OSGeo board to work out where the responsibility for this should lie.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mark</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 May 2017, at 15:51, Michael Terner <<a href="mailto:mgt@appgeo.com" class="">mgt@appgeo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">One more thing from the Boston Team...See<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" class="">below</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for an email that we received from Narcisse Mbunzama from the <span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Republique democratique du Congo...I think it helps to put a human face to this topic as a reminder of how important this program can be to individuals...And, in this case, doubly so with FOSS4G 2018 taking place in Africa...</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">In the meantime, we will keep a list of inquiries from people like Mr. Mbunzama and let them know that we will refer them to the "travel grant application page" if/once the program is announced...Once again, thanks for all the effort and action to bring this forward...Let us know what comes next...</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">MT</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">From: </span><b class="gmail_sendername" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Narcisse Mbunzama</b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""> </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><<a href="mailto:mbunzama@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">mbunzama@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Date: Sat, May 6, 2017 at 7:12 AM</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Subject: Re: FOSS4G Abstract Submission for Presentation</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">To: Ashley Tardif <</span><a href="mailto:atardif@appgeo.com" target="_blank" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">atardif@appgeo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">></span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Dear Ashley Tardif,</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">I'm very happy to read your message about my selection to speak at</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">FOSS4G Boston 2017. I confirm that I will be available to participate</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">in this important event and bring my positive contribution during the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">event.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Due to lack of financial resource, I will appreciate if you can</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">consider my application for travel and accomodation grant to help me</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">participate in the FOSS4G Boston 2017</span></span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">I'm looking forward to hear from you</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Best regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Narcisse Mbunzama</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Project Manager</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">DRCongo Developer Association</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">7 av, Kalemie  Immeuble Anji App 100</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Kinshasa-Gombe</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Republique democratique du Congo</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Tel: </span><a href="tel:%2B%20243%2081%2020%20200%2082" value="+243812020082" target="_blank" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">+ 243 81 20 200 82</a><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:mbunzama@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">mbunzama@gmail.com</a><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Michael Terner<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:mgt@appgeo.com" target="_blank" class="">mgt@appgeo.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">Big thanks to all - Conference Dev & Board - for addressing our request in such a timely and productive manner. Particular thanks to Till for volunteering.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">We will be pleased to work with everyone on using Boston as a "beta" for this program should we be eligible. Let us know what comes next and what we can do to assist.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">Thanks again...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">MT</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class=""><div class="h5"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Cameron Shorter<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""><p class="">+0 from me:</p><p class="">Points to note:</p><p class="">Does "FOSS4G" refer to "FOSS4G Global", or also "FOSS4G regional and local" events? I suggest this motion re managing FOSS4G travel grants is relevant to "FOSS4G Global" only, but may be extended on a case by case basis to other events too.</p><p class="">I suggest we define the process somewhere. Probably here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FO<wbr class="">SS4G_Handbook</a></p><p class="">I'm hesitant about introducing extra responsibility to the conference committee, as I'm wondering whether we have sufficient volunteer capacity to take the extra work on. Based on Till volunteering to lead, I think we at least have initial capability.</p><p class="">Warm regards, Cameron<br class=""></p><div class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295h5"><br class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825moz-cite-prefix">On 6/5/17 1:41 am, David Fawcett wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">+1<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank" class="">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class=""><div class="">+1</div><div class="">Maria</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div id="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243composer_signature" class=""><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 10.5600004196167px; color: rgb(54, 79, 103);" class="">Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung</div></div><br class=""><br class="">-------- Messaggio originale --------<br class="">Da: 신상희 <<a href="mailto:shshin@gaia3d.com" target="_blank" class="">shshin@gaia3d.com</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Data: 05/05/17 16:13 (GMT+01:00)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">A: David Bitner <<a href="mailto:bitner@dbspatial.com" target="_blank" class="">bitner@dbspatial.com</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Cc: Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>>, Conference Dev <<a href="mailto:conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" class="">conference_dev@lists.osgeo.or<wbr class="">g</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] General mandate FOSS4G Travel Grants ~ Call for a VOTE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><div class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825h5"><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Thanks Till. +1 from me.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Sanghee </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">2017. 5. 5. 오후 11:11에 "David William Bitner" <<a href="mailto:bitner@dbspatial.com" target="_blank" class="">bitner@dbspatial.com</a>>님이 작성:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class="">Big +1 from me!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Steven Feldman<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class="">+1 :)<br class=""><div class=""><span class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">______<span class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><br class="">Steven<br class=""><br class=""></font></span></span></div><div class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197h5"><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 May 2017, at 13:07, Till Adams <<a href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" target="_blank" class="">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="">Steven,<br class=""><br class="">setting up the process AND selection process.<br class=""><br class="">Till<br class=""><br class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552moz-cite-prefix">Am 05.05.2017 um 12:44 schrieb Steven Feldman:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class="">Till<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Arte you suggesting that CC approves events to be included in the travel grant program and/or runs the process to select the individuals who wish to benefit from the grants?<br class=""><div class=""><span class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;">______<br class="">Steven<br class=""><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 May 2017, at 07:42, Till Adams <<a class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" target="_blank">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="">Hi ConfComm,<br class=""><br class="">as you've seen in the past days, Michael from BLOC started a discussion how to proceed with the travel grants, Jody was involved for the board and the board accepted to take over the whole travel grant responsibility to OSGeo. This means, we now can (and should) setup a formal and unique procedure for ALL FOSS4G events for travel granting. In my eyes, this is a big step forward (my thanks to Michael to start this discussion again ;-)).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">My suggestion is, to give our ConfComm the mandate to have the responsibility for approving event applications.<br class=""><br class="">So my call for a vote is: "Should ConfComm take over responsibility for approving event applications" ?<br class=""><br class="">Please vote until 10.05.2017 24h CET<br class=""><br class="">Till<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552moz-cite-prefix">Am 05.05.2017 um 08:31 schrieb Jody Garnett:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Excellent, so would the idea be to update the conference committee mandate then?<br class=""><br class="">Or would the conference committee set this up as indicative (for program visibility and sponsorship)? ... similar to how the website/rebranding is being taken on as a one-off by the marketing committee.<br class=""><br class="">That is a bit of a strategic question so it may require thought / planning.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:19 PM Till Adams <<a class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" target="_blank">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="">Hi Jody,<br class=""><br class="">I would propose to post this responsibility to the ConfCom. Some of the past chairs already were involved in such kind of decisions.<br class=""><br class="">Till</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552m_-915785415877049941moz-cite-prefix">Am 04.05.2017 um 17:07 schrieb Jody Garnett:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class="">Thanks Till, can you dive into that draft document and come back here with feedback?<br class=""><br class="">One open question is who should take the responsibility for approving event applications. Should the board handle it like code sprints, is the conference committee interested in the responsibility, do we want a new committee with yourself as chair? Etc ...<br class=""><br class="">If there is a dedicated group then it would open up a few alternate approaches to the one proposed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:32 PM Till Adams <<a class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" target="_blank">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="">I raise my hand as volunteer.</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><br class=""><br class="">Till</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552m_-915785415877049941m_-8063637963106751274moz-cite-prefix">Am 03.05.2017 um 18:10 schrieb Jody Garnett:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">We covered this in last months board meeting, so far we need volunteers willing to take part.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You many not be specifically happy with the direction thus far (travel grant fund available to all osgeo events, focused on diversity, event organizers apply similar to code sprints).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have draft I am working on based on discussion thus far (using code sprint guidelines as a starting point).</div><div class="">​<br class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825gmail_chip
gmail_drive_chip" style="width: 396px; height: 18px; max-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); padding: 5px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); line-height: 1;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jYDOd87redxMHwT-xURcBrD7xwOeAPdVVLWZtIbM7-w/edit?usp=drive_web" target="_blank" style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-decoration: none; padding: 1px 0px; border: none; width: 396px;" class=""><img src="https://drive-thirdparty.googleusercontent.com/16/type/application/vnd.google-apps.document" style="vertical-align: bottom; border: none;" class=""> <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" class="">Travel Grant Guidelines</span></a></div>​</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552m_-915785415877049941m_-8063637963106751274gmail_signature"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">--</div><div class="">Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2017 at 07:59, Steven Feldman<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class=""><<a class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" target="_blank">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class="">I fully support Michael’s request. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is time for OSGeo to establish a transparent policy on travel grants, to fund them and most importantly to administer them<br class=""><div class=""><span class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552m_-915785415877049941m_-8063637963106751274m_8596095979932083045Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">______<br class="">Steven<br class=""><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552m_-915785415877049941m_-8063637963106751274h5"><div class="">On 3 May 2017, at 13:56, Till Adams <<a class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" target="_blank">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552m_-915785415877049941m_-8063637963106751274m_8596095979932083045Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="m_7997976505531375295m_1413156690986204825m_1460161580093941243m_-4298852947824744197m_-724282500892862552m_-915785415877049941m_-8063637963106751274h5"><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">As you all can see we've been very busy assembling our program (<a href="http://2017.foss4g.org/accepted-presentations/" target="_blank" class="">225 accepted talks</a>, out of 423 submitted) and rounding out the sponsorship for the conference (<a href="http://2017.foss4g.org/sponsor/" target="_blank" class="">>$200k of commitments</a>). And now, with 2 weeks to go before the Early Bird expires, registration is starting to pickup with ~200 registrations processed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">And, with registration on people's minds we have started to get the inevitable requests for financial support (e.g., and accepted speaker who's company cannot pay; graduate students looking for support; etc.) and we expect those requests to continue. The Boston LOC (BLOC) would dearly like to have a "Travel Grant Program", but as was pointed out in earlier threads (I believe by both Steven Feldman and Jody Garnett) it is difficult for the host LOC to run such a program. For instance:</div><div class="gmail_default"><ol class=""><li class=""><font face="tahoma,
                                                          sans-serif" class="">We do not yet know our financial condition. With registrations being notoriously late, we won't know if/how much $'s are available for such a program for some time.</font></li><li class=""><font face="tahoma,
                                                          sans-serif" class="">Administering such a program takes time, and our primary focus is on producing the conference and the workshops.</font></li><li class=""><font face="tahoma,
                                                          sans-serif" class="">Decisions on criteria for choosing recipients and the amount of individual grants can be delicate and the criteria/objectives may differ between the BLOC and OSGeo</font></li></ol><div class=""><font face="tahoma,
                                                          sans-serif" class="">As such,<b class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the BLOC would like to make a formal request that OSGeo establish and administer a travel grant program for the Boston 2017 event</b>. We would gladly collaborate and help advertise the program (e.g., on our website and through referrals), but we would concur that this program should be established and funded by OSGeo. We have high hopes that the proceeds from Boston will reimburse OSGeo's investment in subsidizing attendance from certain communities. And, we too will be looking to offer other opportunities for financial support through our volunteer program, and potentially a "need-based" registration discount (if our Early Bird registrations give us increased confidence in our financial success).</font></div><div class=""><font face="tahoma,
                                                          sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="tahoma,
                                                          sans-serif" class="">Thank you in advance for considering this request. Please let us know if you have any questions.</font></div><div class=""><font face="tahoma,
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