[Board] FOSS4G - South America

[Suchith Anand]

I agree with Maxi. Though the costs of travel and accomodation etc as part of the role are reasonable expenses to be reimbursed, having this high salary paid for the position is not adviseable for a volunteer organisation like OSGeo.

All OSGeo members (including those in the OSGeo Board, conference committee ) are all kindly volunteering thier time and expertise for all the activities of OSGeo. 

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>
Sent: 22 October 2016 4:27 PM
To: Anita Graser
Cc: OSGeo Board
Subject: Re: [Board] FOSS4G - South America

Dear all
While i believe that this role is cruciale and very important the mentioned 30,720 USD annual looks really a lot of money to me!
4 days a month means about 20% of a man / month. At this rates the salary would be more than 150,000 USD a year.

Maxi

Il 22 ott 2016 4:09 PM, "Anita Graser" <anitagraser at gmx.at<mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> ha scritto:
Thanks Jeff!

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com<mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:
I've been working with Manolo from the Lima team for several years now, and am discussing FOSS4G-LATAM with him.  I also yesterday joined the FOSS4G-BuenosAires discussions, which began yesterday.  Since others are finally realizing the importance of this role for the foundation, it might be great for the Board to revisit my proposed partially funded FOSS4G Advisor position: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Advisor_Role

I think an adviser could be very helpful.

​I'd be interested in hearing the position of the community and particularly the Conference Committee on this proposal.

Best wishes,
Anita




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