<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><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 November 2017 at 07:16, Vicky Vergara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vicky@georepublic.de" target="_blank">vicky@georepublic.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi all</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Making a bit more flexible<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- Extra support for non NA/Europe countries students with less PPP<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Just comparing flight costs:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> madrid-Brussels 134 Euros</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Hyderabad-Brussels 1152 Euros <-- the small addition from their own pocket would not be that small<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">There is no mention on what would happen with money not used by this proposal.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">(imagine only one student participating on FOSSDEM)</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">VIcky<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">PS sending only to OSGeo-Soc based on Jody's mail<br></div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Margherita Di Leo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diregola@gmail.com" target="_blank">diregola@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Dear OSGeo Board,<div><br></div><div>I would like to propose a motion to be discussed at your earliest convenience. I'm not sure how to do that, I assume I can write it in this mailing list?</div><div>This is my proposal.</div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">In the payment issued by Google for GSoC 2017, they accounted 500 USD as a grant for GSoC students mobility. This money should be used as a travel grant for GSoC students that would like to present their work to conferences. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I would like to propose that OSGeo use this money for the geospatioal devroom at FOSDEM 2018 [1,2,3]. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Why </span><span class="m_7084410716146111842m_-5664046851438155089gmail-m_-2616567746895129241gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">FOSDEM</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">? Because for several years I tried to invite GSoC students to present, they replied that they could consider it only if there was a sort of economical aid. </span><span class="m_7084410716146111842m_-5664046851438155089gmail-m_-2616567746895129241gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">FOSDEM</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> is a free event and the amount of $500 should decently cover accommodation and travel at least within Europe, but would make it also possible to join from outside Europe with a small addition from their own pocket.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Please let me know should you need any additional information / clarification.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thank you in advance</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Kind regards,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[1] <a href="https://fosdem.org/2018/" target="_blank">https://fosdem.org/2018/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[2] <a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2017-October/002633.html" target="_blank">https://lists.fosdem.org/p<wbr>ipermail/fosdem/2017-October/0<wbr>02633.html</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[3] Last year's geospatial devroom: <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/" target="_blank">https://archive.fosde<wbr>m.org/2017/schedule/track/<wbr>geospatial/</a></div><span class="m_7084410716146111842HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_7084410716146111842m_-5664046851438155089gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#666666">Margherita Di Leo</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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