[Board] Budget: GSoC money

[Cameron Shorter]

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.

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Cameron Shorter
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