[FOSS4G-Oceania] Motion: increase TGP contribution

[John Bryant]

So far, so good, around 30 applications. Many of them are very compelling.

On Tue., 11 Sep. 2018, 8:20 am Alex Leith, <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> How are we going with applications?
>
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 07:23 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> +0 I don't feel strongly, but trust John's judgement in calling this
>> motion.
>>
>> Adam, can you please loop me in on conversations around developing a TGP
>> policy. This is something I'd like to help OSGeo with if I can find the
>> time.
>>
>> Cheers, Cameron
>>
>> On 11/09/2018 7:03 AM, Daniel Silk wrote:
>>
>> +1
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:02 AM Jonah Sullivan <jonahsullivan79 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> On Tue, 11 Sep. 2018, 06:57 John Bryant, <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all, I want to raise a motion to increase our contribution to our
>>>> Travel Grant Program.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, we have committed 5 conference & workshop registrations (est
>>>> cash cost $1500) plus $1500 cash, for a total of $3000. This is partly
>>>> funded by community & sponsor contributions to the Good Mojo Fund, and
>>>> partly out of our surplus.
>>>>
>>>> You'll recall, we're seeking $3000 in additional funding from OSGeo.
>>>> With their contribution, we would be in a position to assist approx. 5
>>>> attendees through the TGP. Unfortunately, it's uncertain whether we'll get
>>>> this additional funding. The OSGeo committee responsible for their TGP
>>>> wishes to develop a policy before deciding on disbursing any funds, and
>>>> effectively, we need to know before our application deadline of 21 Sep, so
>>>> that we know how to proceed. It may be difficult for them to make a
>>>> decision on this in the time frame we require.
>>>>
>>>> We're doing what we can - Adam is directly involved with OSGeo on this
>>>> policy, and we've asked if they can expedite the process, or perhaps make
>>>> an exception in our case while they consider their policy development.
>>>> Fingers crossed.
>>>>
>>>> So, the motion is this:
>>>>
>>>> *We contribute an additional $3000 to our Travel Grant Program, which
>>>> will enable us to support 5 attendees. In the event that OSGeo decides to
>>>> make an additional contribution of $3000, as we've requested, we
>>>> additionally contribute 3 full registrations (conference & workshop), so
>>>> that we can support 8 attendees in total.*
>>>>
>>>>
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