[Board] next year's representative at FOSS4G Conference

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 13:51:39 PDT 2015


Hi Jeff,
OSGeo's "Suggested involvement from board members" [1] describes that 
board members traveling on behalf of the board should have travel (and 
possibly lost wages) covered:
[1] 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Suggested_involvement_from_board_members


On 13/04/2015 10:12 pm, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> It should be included in the FOSS4G local committee's budget (so in 
> fact you could consider that we/Board already support it, as we are 
> the providers of the seed money).  For example, the 2016 group should 
> budget for a rep at 2015 event.
>
> You might also send your message to the OSGeo Conference Committee, as 
> it really isn't a Board responsibility.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> On 2015-04-13 9:06 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>> Hello board,
>>
>> do we have any policy in place currently for making it possible for 
>> somebody from next years’s conference to attend the FOSS4G conference 
>> and represent their conference there?
>>
>> If not, would it not make sense to have something in place like a 
>> travel allowance and free conference pass (exact package TBD)?
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
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>

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