<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>We needed to get moving on travel grants. There are less than 12 weeks to FOSS4G</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><br>Steven<div>07958 924 101</div></div><div><br>On 1 Jun 2017, at 23:30, Michael Terner <<a href="mailto:mgt@appgeo.com">mgt@appgeo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><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" style=""><ol style=""><li style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Today we launched our "<a href="http://2017.foss4g.org/volunteer/">call for volunteers</a>" which provides another "more affordable" means of covering registration.</font></li><li style=""><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 style=""><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">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><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_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="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="m_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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