[Board] Motion: provide seed funding to FOSS4G 2016 team
Massimiliano Cannata
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch
Fri Aug 28 10:09:09 PDT 2015
Jeff, the draft do not take in account any of my comment.
I will provide changes according to my proposal (make things identical to
Seoul) if it is fine, but i don't want to mess up your things.
Can I proceed?
Best,
maxi
2015-08-28 17:49 GMT+02:00 Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>:
> 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
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> Everyone: please edit it accordingly. (it is in OpenOffice format)
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> Thanks,
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> -jeff
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> On 2015-08-27 1:01 PM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
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>> -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.
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>>
>> Maxi
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>> 2015-08-26 16:54 GMT+02:00 Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com
>> <mailto:michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>>:
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>> +1
>>
>> Mike
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>> 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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