[Board] Motion: provide seed funding to FOSS4G 2016 team
Jeff McKenna
jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Fri Aug 28 10:14:46 PDT 2015
Maxi, please proceed with your changes.
-jeff
On 2015-08-28 2:09 PM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>
> 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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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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