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

[Bart van den Eijnden]

+1

Bart

On 14 Feb 2014, at 23:38, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Morissette
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