[Board] Motion: provide seed funding to FOSS4G 2016 team
Massimiliano Cannata
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch
Fri Aug 28 10:18:31 PDT 2015
Dear all,
in attachment the revised agreement draft following the Seoul one.
Best,
Maxi
2015-08-28 19:09 GMT+02:00 Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>:
> 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
>>
>> 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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> Responsabile settore Geomatica
>
>
> Istituto scienze della Terra
>
> Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design
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> Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana
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