[Board] geoserver code sprint funding request

[Jody Garnett]

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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