<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Vasile, I have updated the Board’s Budget page to include our request for funding for the TGP.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jonathan, it would be good to get an early sense of what Calgary wants to achieve with a Travel Grant Programme see <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_Cookbook" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_Cookbook</a> for some guidance.<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Dec 2019, at 08:48, Vasile Craciunescu <<a href="mailto:vasile@geo-spatial.org" class="">vasile@geo-spatial.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear Steven,<br class=""><br class="">Apologies for the late reply. I was traveling during for the Christmas<br class="">holidays. I didn't have the change to discuss this with Msilikale but,<br class="">from my point of view, I totally agree with your proposal.<br class=""><br class="">I think we should discuss ASAP with Calgary team and make sure they do<br class="">understand our TGP rules. As we previously discuss early this year, from<br class="">the organizers point of view, the rules can be a little bit hard,<br class="">especially because you have to take the commitments quite early, when<br class="">you are not sure about the budget.<br class=""><br class="">Warm regards,<br class="">Vasile<br class=""><br class="">On 24/12/2019 11:15, Steven Feldman wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Vasile, Msilikale<br class=""><br class="">The Board have requested budget submissions by 31st December 2019,<br class="">see <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020</a><br class=""><br class="">In 2019 we had a $25k budget for the Travel Grant Programme, which we<br class="">did not fully utilise (I think we managed to spend about $15-18k). <br class=""><br class="">Our TGP is allocated 50-60% to the global event and 40-50% to regional<br class="">events (we only had one or two regional events applying). It is a<br class="">condition that the organising committee contributes an equal amount of<br class="">cash sponsorship plus free conference passes to receive TGP funding.<br class=""><br class="">We have not yet had a discussion with the Calgary team about their<br class="">ambitions for a TGP for FOSS4G2020, I suggest that we request the same<br class="">budget as 2019 and work harder at promoting TGP funding to regional events.<br class="">______<br class="">Steven<br class=""><br class="">Unusual maps in strange places - <a href="http://mappery.org" class="">mappery.org</a> <<a href="http://mappery.org" class="">http://mappery.org</a>><br class=""><br class="">Subscribe to my weekly “Maps in the Wild <<a href="http://eepurl.com/dKStT-/" class="">http://eepurl.com/dKStT-/</a>>”<br class="">newsletter<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">---------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">Vasile Crăciunescu<br class=""><a href="http://geo-spatial.org" class="">geo-spatial.org</a>: An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge & geoData<br class=""><a href="http://www.geo-spatial.org" class="">http://www.geo-spatial.org</a><br class="">http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial<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=""></div></body></html>