<html><head></head><body><span id="docs-internal-guid-1ec3dbb7-7fff-ede7-41e8-ca648db79348"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dear fellow PSC members,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The voting for the 2023 grant programme has closed and I have calculated the results. </span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As specified in the process description, the computations should be reviewed and confirmed by at least two PSC members. Therefore, I'd like to invite you to have a look.</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For your convenience, here's the summary of the process:</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The successful proposals are determined as follows: The calculation of votes is done by summing up the votes for each proposal. We then rank each proposal according to the number of votes it has received.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Grants will be allocated by working sequentially from top scoring proposal to lowest until all the funds have been allocated. If the top candidates do not exactly coincide with the total grant budget, we may, depending on available funds, ‘top up’ the grant budget to include the next-in-line proposal and use up all of the available funds. The Google Drive GrantProgramme folder contains spreadsheets with the corresponding formulas.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The computed results should be reviewed and confirmed by at least two PSC members before publishing the results. </span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;" id="docs-internal-guid-1ec3dbb7-7fff-ede7-41e8-ca648db79348"><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Regards,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Anita</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></div></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;" class="viv-signature-below"></span></span></div><div><br></div></span><span class="viv-signature-below">-- <br>Anita Graser<br>Home: http://anitagraser.com<br>Twitter: @underdarkgis<br>Mastodon: @underdarkgis@fosstodon.org </span></body></html>