[Board] Funding for OSGeo President to attend global FOSS4G

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Board,
as Emeritus President (and thus no power of decision but the ability
to contribute to the decision from my own experience) I also support
this plan.

Best regards,
Arnulf

On 14.07.2013 23:30, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> I am supportive of this plan.
> 
> Best regards, Frank
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Jáchym ?epický 
> <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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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