<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-633e19f0-7fff-5cbc-0d9d-947652321841"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi FOSS4G SotM Oceania Hub Managers,</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">While you're planning your hub event over the next couple of months, there will be a lot of moving parts and it'll be a challenge to get everything done. I'm sure most of you would agree that in this community, we want everyone to feel welcome at our events, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, age, educational background, or financial situation, and we want to minimise our environmental impact.</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At the first FOSS4G SotM Oceania conference in 2018, the Good Mojo Fund was established to work toward this goal: in 2018, 7 people were sponsored to attend the conference and then 13 people in 2019 as part of the Travel Grant Program.</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Past initiatives have included:</span></span></font></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Travel Grant Program</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Networking breakfasts (Women in Geospatial, Travel Grantees)</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Child-friendly events</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tree planting (to mitigate carbon offsets)</span></span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In 2021, as a hub, you can access funds to help encourage diversity, inclusion, and sustainability initiatives at your local event.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> You're invited to be creative. What kinds of initiatives would make your community feel welcome at your event? Do people need encouragement, kinship, or financial support? Do they need free mobile data or financial assistance to help attend a hub? Would being able to pay for daycare or bring children to the event make it more accessible? If you're planning to have paid registrations at your hub, you could use Good Mojo to fund free registrations for people that might not be able to pay for them. You know your local community best, so you know what works and what your priorities are.</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What you need to do:</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Come up with a plan. What will you do? What will it cost? What will it achieve, and how does it fit with the objectives of the Good Mojo Fund?</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Be realistic and detailed. If you want to organise a breakfast, figure out how many people will attend, and what the total cost will be. If you want to provide reimbursement for travel costs, think about how you will implement this. How will you decide who gets support, and how much they will get? What will the total cost be?</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To access funds to make your initiative a reality, get in touch with us at <a href="mailto:grants@osgeo-oceania.org">grants@osgeo-oceania.org</a>, the earlier the better, and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">no later than Tuesday 12 October</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. If you have an idea and want to talk it through, let us know - we're here to help!</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Finally, a request:</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One way the Good Mojo Fund gets replenished is through contributions from attendees and sponsors. Hubs that are selling registrations are encouraged to add an option to donate to the Fund when attendees are registering. This is a great way for conference attendees to support these initiatives directly, and to share resources across the region. Local sponsors might be also interested in donating to the Good Mojo if you present that as an option.</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You can learn a little bit more about the Good Mojo Fund here: </span><a href="https://osgeo-oceania.org/funding/good-mojo" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://osgeo-oceania.org/funding/good-mojo</span></a></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask on the public </span><a href="mailto:foss4g-oceania@lists.osgeo.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">foss4g-oceania@lists.osgeo.org</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> mailing list, or privately on <a href="mailto:grants@osgeo-oceania.org">grants@osgeo-oceania.org</a>.</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cheers!</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">John</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">on behalf of the OSGeo Oceania Grants Working Group</span></span></font></p></div>