[Board] Funding for OSGeo President to attend global FOSS4G

[Frank Warmerdam]

Peter,

I am supportive of this plan.

Best regards,
Frank


On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Jáchym Čepický <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> I second your proposal. President helps to build the community.
>
> Jachym
>
> Send from cellphone
>
> Peter Batty <peter at ebatty.com>napsal/a:
>
>
> Dear Board,
>
> I (and the Nottingham LOC) just recently found out that Jeff was not going
> to be able to make it to FOSS4G Nottingham because of lack of funding.
> Steven and the LOC would really like to have Jeff there, and I would too.
> While I support the growth of regional events, I think there's something
> special about the global event and I think it's important for OSGeo that
> our President is there.
>
> We have talked to Jeff and he has indicated that he will be able to attend
> if his expenses are covered. The LOC has budget for funding keynote
> speakers as needed, and could just go ahead and fund Jeff's attendance from
> that, which is a fallback option.
>
> However, I'm raising this with the board as I think we should establish a
> principle that OSGeo should pay the President's expenses to go to the
> annual global conference every year (unless he or she is in a position to
> fund travel by other means). I think this is a very reasonable thing to do
> - like I said, I really think it's important for the Foundation that the
> President should be there each year. But it's not reasonable to expect
> whoever is President to fund that from their own pocket. I was opposed to
> automatically funding the whole board to go, just because that becomes a
> significantly larger expense for OSGeo and quite a number of board members,
> myself included, work for larger companies who are willing to fund them to
> attend. And while it's good to have a reasonable number of board members
> there, I don't think it's critical to the event to have all board members
> in attendance. But I do think it's really important for the President to be
> there.
>
> Financially of course, it would ultimately amount to the same thing for
> OSGeo whether the LOC just approves the expense or whether the board
> approves this. But I think we should agree to do it on an ongoing basis.
>
> Procedurally I don't know if I should propose this as a motion at the next
> board meeting, or whether we can just have a vote via email. Just in case,
> I propose a tentative motion:
>
> OSGeo will refund reasonable travel and living expenses for the OSGeo
> President to attend the global FOSS4G conference each year. The President
> has the option of declining this funding if he or she can obtain funding
> from another source.
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> Cheers,
>     Peter.
>
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