<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="">I have updated the section on the “Selection Process” to provide more clarity on how we selected in 2017<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Sep 2017, at 10:52, Till Adams <<a href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" class="">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear Dar-Team!<br class=""><br class="">I just came across the travel grant programme (TGP) WIKi pages of the<br class="">2017 conference. TGP was - in our eyes - really successful, as we were<br class="">able to get quite some people to F4G through TGP.<br class=""><br class="">Looking back, the whole process happened somehow under pressure, as we<br class="">did not have much time last year (after OSGeo released the fundings, we<br class="">only had few weeks for establishing the whole process). But for 2018 we<br class="">of course want to improve the process and ideally expand the whole<br class="">programme.<br class=""><br class="">This page describes what we did for 2017:<br class=""><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_2017" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_2017</a><br class=""><br class="">(I started to add a section "procedure 2017 which might not be complete<br class="">as I just wrote down what came to my mind - @CCers feel free to add/edit<br class="">;-))<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I'd like you to put some attention on TGP when discussing your next<br class="">steps. It would be great, if we could start planning TGP earlier (in<br class="">words: as early as possible) for 2018 and also publish a call for<br class="">community donations as early as possible.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Personally I regard TGP as one of the key factors on enabling more<br class="">people to access a F4G. And also, I'd like to have had an external TGP<br class="">committee in 2016, but there was none. Just so you know, we are ready to<br class="">help and support you where we can, so don't hesitate contacting CC or me<br class="">directly in this issue.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Till<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>