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

[Jeff McKenna]

Maxi, as requested I have begun the financial agreement draft: 
http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2016/budget_planning/osgeo-local-committee-advance-agreement.odt

Everyone: please edit it accordingly. (it is in OpenOffice format)

Thanks,

-jeff






On 2015-08-27 1:01 PM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
> -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 afunding
> 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
> <mailto:michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>>:
>
>     +1
>
>     Mike
>
>
>
>     On 8/26/15,  10:49 AM, "Jorge Sanz" <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on
>     behalf of jsanz at osgeo.org <mailto:jsanz at osgeo.org>> wrote:
>
>      >+1
>      >
>      >2015-08-26 15:52 GMT+02:00 Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at osgis.nl
>     <mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl>>:
>      >> Thanks for moving this Jeff.
>      >>
>      >> +1
>      >>
>      >> Bart
>      >>
>      >>> On 26 Aug 2015, at 15:49, Jeff McKenna
>     <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto: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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