[Board] Minutes from 12 November meeting

[Michael Smith]

Cameron,

It was my understanding that this was not sponsoring to attend the event.
But just sponsoring to attend a possible f2f, essentially something like
an extra night of hotel if a board member were there already. Or to travel
if the member was not attending FOSS4G. It had not been determined that
there would be a f2f, just that board members would not have to attend out
of pocket if there were to be a meeting.

Mike

Michael Smith
OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
treasurer at osgeo.org



On 11/16/15,  2:07 PM, "Board on behalf of Cameron Shorter"
<board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
>On 17/11/2015 3:58 am, Sanghee Shin wrote:
>> 2. MOTION: OSGeo to pay for travel and arrangements at FOSS4G Bonn for
>>all board members if a F2F board meeting is planned for there
>
>OSGeo Board,
>Is this the second f2f meeting within a year that the OSGeo board is
>proposing to be paid to attend?
>Also is this the first OSGeo Board who would be all sponsored to attend
>a FOSS4G event?
>
>I'm concerned that this is a deviation from prior OSGeo principles, and
>looks externally to be self-serving.
>I suspect that travel costs would become a reasonable percentage of
>OSGeo's budget should regular board travel be approved.
>As such, I suggest it should be a line item in the OSGeo Vision as well
>as in the OSGeo budget. (I assume the current budget's travel allowance
>isn't sufficient to cover 2 board international trips?)
>
>-- 
>Cameron Shorter,
>Software and Data Solutions Manager
>LISAsoft
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>
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