[Board] 2014 budget: FOSS4G pre sprint?

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi Bart, and All,

I'm all for supporting sprints, and we do have more funds available for 
this kind of stuff this year than in previous year, so I'm all for doing 
everything we can. However, in order to handle code sprint support in a 
fair way, we have agreed to follow some guidelines which are documented at:

   http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines

Unfortunately, even with those guidelines in place, I find that the way 
we have handled this in the past is a bit ad hoc and the amount of 
funding offered to each event was very arbitrary. In addition to that we 
only had requests from a couple of sprints, so there are some very 
worthwhile ones that never benefited from OSGeo support (simply because 
they never asked and are used to find their own funding). I wonder if we 
should try to have a more organized way to let sprint organizers submit 
proposals, maybe once or twice a year, and then allocate funds based on 
our global budget at a predetermined time instead of just responding to 
requests when they come to us.

Since we're talking of funding sprints, the Vienna Sprint at the end of 
March will bring together the C tribe Sprint, the QGIS hackfest and the 
GRASS sprint for a whole week, with 64 people signed up so far. We 
should definitely look at supporting it. I'll talk to Stephan Meissl 
(the organizer) about submitting a request for funding.

More info at http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/

With respect to a pre-FOSS4G sprint, I'd encourage the organizers to 
consider setting up a multi-project sprint and not focus solely on 
GeoServer as that would give them bonus points in our Code Sprint 
Guidelines... and then to submit a funding request following the guidelines.

My 0.02$

Daniel


On 14-02-11 2:47 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Since Jeff asked for input on the 2014 budget in the board meeting, I wanted to raise an idea here.
>
> I’ve heard some OSGeo projects (but most notably GeoServer) talk about doing a code sprint the week before the FOSS4G conference, and I think this would be wonderful thing to sponsor as OSGeo.
>
> What do people think of the idea?
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
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