[Board] QGIS Hackfest and User Developer Conference (MOT 4.1 and MOT 4.2)

[Anita Graser]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> On 19 Mar 2016, at 17:31, Sanghee Shin <shshin at gaia3d.com> wrote:
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> 2016. 3. 19., 오전 1:57, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> 작성:
>
> To resolve our our "*MOT4: Seek clarification form QGIS hackfest
> organizers and decide about support by email*" agenda item can I ask the
> board members to support the following two motions:
>
> MOT 4.1 OSGeo 2000 EUR sponsorship of *QGIS Hackfest*
>
>
> +1
> I’d like to ask QGIS hackfest organisers to put OSGeo logo clearly at the
> sponsors or similar page.
>
>
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> MOT 4.2 Provide further support of up to 2000 EUR to share risk for the *QGIS
> User and Developer Conference*
>
>
> -0
> It seems there’s no clear agreement between QGIS hackfest organisers and
> OSGeo how to handle loss/profit at the moment.
>
>
> I would just like to clarify that there are three different events taking
> place in short succession in Girona:
>
> a) General Spanish FOSS GIS conference
> b) QGIS User conference
> c) QGIS Hackfest
>
> Events a + b are paid-to-attend events by attendees. Event c is a non paid
> event (hackers donating their time to work on QGIS) and is typically
> sponsored from a mix of local organiser funds, self funding by attendees
> and QGIS funds from sponsors etc. There is zero chance that c will ever
> make a profit since we do not charge an attendance fee of monetise it in
> any way. Lluis’ intent is to support a large chunk of the  costs
> (particularly accommodation for 28 people and meals for all) of (c) from
> the activities in (a+b). QGIS fund will also supports the event primarily
> through travel and accommodation support. Lluis can clarify any
> misrepresentations I have made above if needed. Luis’ concern is about
> whether there will be sufficient income from a+b to cover the costs of c -
> hence his request to OSGEO for support.
>


​Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think part of the reluctance to
sponsor the hackfest with €4k is that this would be a significant share of
the whole events budget for the year. ​(See "first come first serve"
discussions on the lists.)

​Best wishes,
Anita​
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