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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi Peter,</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for this info.
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One suggestion is maybe </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if you can reach out to </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IODP
and request that they provide OSGeo with a free </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">presentation slot </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in th</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eir </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
Town Hall event for future years (we can think of having an MoU with them). We can provide them OSGeo Live USBs etc at their TownHall event which will be useful for their delegates and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">attendees
. We can also promote the AGU TownHall event through our networks for greater participation. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suchith </span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> OpenGeoscience <opengeoscience-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe@gmx.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 19 December 2018 09:51<br>
<b>To:</b> opengeoscience@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OpenGeoscience] Budget 2019 / AGU Townhall</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Dear all,<br>
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here is a bit of sobering input for next years budget planning.<br>
Our friends at IODP (<a href="https://www.iodp.org/" id="LPlnk741545" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://www.iodp.org/</a>) have been hosting annual Townhalls at AGU General Assemblies for over tens years. The report that for this years Townhall
(150 attendees, hotel room rental, refreshments/nibbles) they spent 15.000 EUR. That is 250% of the 2018 budget for the Open GeoScience Committee. I have contacted the ESSI Division of AGU regarding cheaper alternatives and will report on this ASAP. IMHO,
spending over 10.000 EUR for a rather short reach out event would be excessive and is not justifiable.<br>
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Best,<br>
Peter<br>
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