[Board] Funding code Sprints

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

Considering OSGeo budget for 2016, I think, it could be
possible to support 3 or 4 Code Sprints at similar
sponsorship levels for each sprint as in the past.

I would like to propose to have code spread across three or four
periods across the year e.g Jan-March, April-June, July-Sept, Oct-Dec
and have RFP's for code sprints just like we have for our annual
conference.

OSGeo Code Sprint in Paris starting from today (22 Feb., 2016), fits 
very well
for the  first quarter of 2016. I see a great lineup of projects
and participants for the Paris Code Sprint [1].

Code sprints are an integral part of FOSS4G Conferences which is our
largest gathering of users and developers. It will be appropriate that
OSGeo Foundation supports Code Sprints at FOSS4G conferences as
an official event for the July-September period.

Best

Venka

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Paris_Code_Sprint_2016


On 2016/02/20 18:07, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
> Dear All,
> this is to acknowledge that there is a topic on discussion within the board
> directors on assigning funds to sprint code requests.
>
> Up to now a request-voting-fund approach has been followed without any
> specific plan.
> Since the board f2f meeting (thank you community for supporting that as i
> believe it was an enormous opportunity for OSGeo to speed up advances and
> was so fruitful) a budget has been draft and resources has been allocated.
>
> With this mail I would personally like to ask a few questions the different
> communities:
>
> - who is intended to present a fund request for sprint code in 2016. This
> will give an idea of the number of expected requests.
>
> - do you have preferences on criteria for assign resources and eventually
> what is your choice motivation?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Maxi
>
>
>
>
>
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