<div dir="ltr">I don't know exactly how this worked so far, but I have the feeling that this makes sense if the conference is a FOSS4G and the organizers sit in the Conference committee. In this case I think it makes more sense that the conveners evaluate students' abstracts and decide what is the best work that is worth to sponsor. So my proposal would be to keep the 2 things separate. On one hand, the GSoC travel grant to be assigned on request by the FOSDEM conveners. On the other hand, if OSGeo decides to sponsor the geospatial devroom at FOSDEM granting additional travel aid to whom ever the conference committee pleases, we (organizers) are only very grateful for that and will mention OSGeo as a sponsor.<div><br></div><div>What do you think?</div><div>Thanks<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">travel grant program is under direction of the conference committee, so they would need to vet student applications for travel assistance.<div><br></div><div>Up to you if it is worth it :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail-m_-5085262601354507077gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail-h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 November 2017 at 08:09, Margherita Di Leo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diregola@gmail.com" target="_blank">diregola@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Jody,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Quick question, we have a travel grant program for use to help attend events. Could this be considered fundraising for the global travel grant program emarked for students?<div><br></div><div>I just ask because the travel grant program has up to a 10k match from OSGeo, so your $500 would become $1000 :)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>This would be cool. What about this:</div><div>- If 2 students request travel grant to present at FOSDEM, OSGeo can decide to add another $500 grant for the second student</div><div>- If no student claim travel grant for FOSDEM, those $500 go into OSGeo grant program for another event. Only binding condition I would request, is the student to be a GSoC student, respecting the credit to Google that pays the bill for that at the end of the day.</div><div>I just want to publicly disclose (if wasn't yet evident from the links) that I've been a co-organizer of the geospatial devroom at FOSDEM, so I'm totally bias towards OSGeo sponsoring it in any possible way</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><span class="gmail-m_-5085262601354507077HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div class="gmail-m_-5085262601354507077m_-5393190371132415189m_-6440921012170621250gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail-m_-5085262601354507077m_-5393190371132415189h5">
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