[Board] Budget: GSoC money

[Anne Ghisla]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:10:54 +1100
Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27/03/2013 7:01 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Cameron,
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Cameron Shorter
> > <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Ie, "matching" equates to providing the amount of funding equal to
> >> sponsorship found by others.
> > unclear is: budget of the entire OSGeo project or budget of the
> > actual sprint event. While Paolo reported the entire budget, I
> > reported in the past the sponsorship obtained for an event.
> >
> > Hence: the wiki page needs a clarification about "amount of
> > funding".
> >
> > Just my impression,
> > Markus
> Markus, matching funding equates to funds raised from sponsors "for
> the specific code sprint event".
> 
> But probably the more important consideration is that OSGeo has a
> fixed amount of funds allocated code sprints, which should be shared
> equably between sprint events. The big unknown factor when
> determining funding for a specific code sprint is knowing how many
> code sprints there will be for the year.
> What I suggest is that we keep track of past code sprints, including
> key metrics such as numbers of attendees, costs. Something like: 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History (which keeps track of how 
> OSGeo-Live is being used and is useful for planning for future 
> OSGeo-Live sponsorship).
> 
> Markus, Anne, Paolo,
> Could you please start a Code Sprint history page (or similar) that
> we could refer back to.

Sorry for delay, I'll create the page tonight or tomorrow, including
only OSGeo-supported code sprints. I'll make clear that more events
happen worldwide!

Best,

Anne
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