[Board] Motion: provide seed funding to FOSS4G 2016 team

[Massimiliano Cannata]

-1

My vote is motivated by a series of reasons that took me to veto this
motion.

1) The board has not been provided with sufficient information regarding
past events to evaluate the current request
(I need to see a summary for each past event of: seed money, guarantees,
fee, total expenses, total  income, profit, OSGeo revenue)

2) I don't think OSGeo should be exposed for more then 1 FOSS4G event at
the same time: it increase the risks and 1 year for event organization I
believe is enough. (Next time it could be 100k * 2)

3) The 2015 FOSS4G event relies on a USD 40,000 seed money which is also
the OSGeo guarantee. We know from past experiences that FOSS4G is more
risky when organized outside Europe or USA, nevetheless we didn't provided
such a guarantee in 2015, thus to be fair I don't think we shall provide it
now without a deep discussion.

4) Finally (this is more a my common sense evaluation) I don't think it is
raccomandable to take big budget decisions that may affect the coming board
members activities just one week before of the elections.

I strongly believe that this decision, involving such a great amount of
money, should be postponed and submitted to the new board after the
elections and only having a clear vision of what was the procedure followed
in the past years. In fact, this decision will draw the line to be followed
in the future for every international FOSS4G events.


For the above mentioned motivations, acknowledging the impelling need of
money of 2016 FOSS4G organizers, I propose to assign to the Bonn local
committee the amount of USD 40,000 after the signing of a funding
agreement identical to the one approved by the OSGeo board and signed by
the OSGeo president and the Chair of FOSS4G 2015  for the Seoul event.

Future amendment could be possible if approved an signed by the two parties.


Maxi



2015-08-26 16:54 GMT+02:00 Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>:

> +1
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On 8/26/15,  10:49 AM, "Jorge Sanz" <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on
> behalf of jsanz at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> >+1
> >
> >2015-08-26 15:52 GMT+02:00 Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at osgis.nl>:
> >> Thanks for moving this Jeff.
> >>
> >> +1
> >>
> >> Bart
> >>
> >>> On 26 Aug 2015, at 15:49, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> >>>wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Board,
> >>>
> >>> I've spoken with Till this morning and this is time sensitive.  Please
> >>>respond within 2 business days.
> >>>
> >>> ***
> >>> Motion: Set aside 100k euros for the guarantee of the FOSS4G 2016
> >>>event in Bonn, and to provide 50k euros from that amount, to the Bonn
> >>>local committee as seed funding.  Terms of the agreement will be put
> >>>into writing and signed by the chair of 2016 and OSGeo, and approved by
> >>>the OSGeo Board.
> >>> ***
> >>>
> >>> This vote will help allow Till to start signing contracts etc.
> >>>
> >>> -jeff
> >>>
> >>>
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*Massimiliano Cannata*

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