[Board] MOTION: Authorize running Vienna code sprint sponsorships through OSGeo

[Jachym Cepicky]

+1 

thank you

Jachym

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 05:38:43PM -0500, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Hi board,
> 
> Please see explanation below and vote on the following motion:
> 
> MOTION: To authorize OSGeo and its Treasurer to run some of the
> sponsorship funds for the Vienna Code Sprint through OSGeo's bank
> account and transfer the total amount in a single transaction to the
> Vienna Sprint organizers, together with the surplus from past C
> Tribe Sprints that is already sitting in OSGeo's bank account.
> 
> And I start with my +1 / Daniel
> 
> Explanation:
> 
> For some of the sponsors for the Vienna Code Sprint
> (http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/) based in US, it is complicated
> and expensive to transfer the funds to the organizer (Stephan
> Meissl) in Europe, and it would be easier and cheaper to just mail a
> check to OSGeo that would be forwarded in one single transaction
> together with the surplus from pas C Tribe Sprints which is already
> sitting in OSGeo's bank account and waiting to be transferred when
> we will be ready.
> 
> We would not want to act as a bank for several events per year
> because of the overhead, but in this specific case since we are
> talking only about one or two transactions, and we are already
> handling the surplus from pas C Tribe Sprints anyway, the additional
> overhead is minimal so I think it is worth doing.
> 
> This motion is mostly a formality but I wanted to run this by the
> board anyway.
> 
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> Daniel Morissette
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