[Board] geoserver code sprint funding request

[thomas bonfort]

Jody,
While I have no doubt about the reasons that make this sponsorship
desirable from a community/developer point of view, my reluctance
stems from:

- AFAIK there has been no precedent where OSGeo has actually covered
airfare for these events.
- There is another code-sprint happening a few weeks later. Should
travel expenses for that event be covered by OSGeo?
- I understand you have deadlines that make the Paris code sprint date
too late. Too late for the corporate backers or for the community?
- Given the attendance distribution and location of the sprint, this
very much seems to me like a closed corporate event. I understand the
paid developer time is a significant investment, but I also do however
feel that this is asking OSGeo to step in to finance housekeeping
tasks that should be covered by the companies who are making money on
the more marketable developments going on.

My feelings for this:
- Use OSGeo to market the event and collect external sponsors, but
don't ask for that sponsorship directly to OSGeo
- In the longer run I am supportive of OSGeo sponsoring these kinds of
events. I just believe this here is the wrong event to be a starting
point for that.

Best regards,
Thomas

On 26 November 2015 at 22:28, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have asked the GeoServer community what they need for a sprint - the
> answer was:
>
> a venue
> airfare
> participants (in-person)
>
> We are keeping accommodation costs low (members of the local OSGeo
> community, such as Martin Davis, have volunteered to host guests). Boundless
> has provided a venue, either their Victoria office (in-kind) or a local
> shared office space (marked as $1250 CAD in-kind in the budget). We are
> expecting attendees to feed themselves.
>
> I admit this is a pretty barebones sprint, but it is the first one the
> GeoServer community has organized, and we are focused on results rather than
> socializing.
>
> I am more concerned with this event failing due to lack of participants than
> fund raising, in part because I believe OSGeo and sponsorship can cover the
> modest costs for the event. And because we are doing everything we can to
> keep costs down.
>
> I suppose extra fundraising food/beer could help attract participants
> (anyone with prior experience running a sprint please advise). I did not
> want to misrepresent the event as a social gathering.
> --
> Jody
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 1:09 AM thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I assume the fact that I'm caricaturing the facts a bit here, but is
>> it OSGeo's role to be funding travel expenses for a private company's
>> meeting?
>>
>> --
>> thomas
>>
>> On 26 November 2015 at 08:39, Jeff McKenna
>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>> > On 2015-11-26 9:56 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I have filled in the wiki page
>> >> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Code_Sprint_2016> here, and
>> >> taken
>> >> the budget forecast into a google document
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mp2xWq95t1rqwle6_WCQ0qD8D9-1icitLH0AiJQ7r4Y/edit#gid=990228872&vpid=A1>.
>> >>
>> >> This funding request is an agenda topic for the Dec 10th meeting.
>> >> --
>> >
>> >
>> > Note that this request was not added as an agenda topic for the Dec 10th
>> > meeting, so I have added it now:
>> > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-12-10#Current_items
>> >
>> > Please everyone, if you have an important topic, don't forget to add
>> > your
>> > item yourself.  Thank you.
>> >
>> > -jeff
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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