[Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] Conference Committee F2F meeting

[Michael Terner]

We in Boston very much appreciate this discussion and advice. Just a couple
of quick points:

   - Our preliminary budget includes allowances for free/discounted passes,
   ranging from sponsors, to LOC members, to student/volunteers.
   - We are very interested in having a travel and/or "free pass" grant
   program and will definitely be communicating with conference dev as needs
   and opportunities become clearer. We very much want diverse participation
   including geographic, ethnic and economic means diversity.
   - The best way to have a more generous grant program is to have more
   paying customers. We will be vigorous in seeking new, paying attendees and
   sponsors.

We will continue to pay close attention to these discussions...Thanks
again...

MT

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:27 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <
maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:

> Dear All
> I agree with the position of Venka. Moreover in my opinion conferences
> have to be as much as possible diverse and  inclusive. This means that we
> need to reduce costs in such a way that everybody, who is interested, can
> come.
> Best regards to All of You!
> Maria
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung device
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Venka <venka.osgeo at gmail.com>
> Date: 06/09/2016 04:19 (GMT+01:00)
> To: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org, board at lists.osgeo.org,
> discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] Conference Committee F2F meeting
>
> Hi Guidi and all,
>
> On 2016/08/26 1:18, Guido Stein wrote:
> > I have added my notes and action items from the meeting on the wiki.
> >
> > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee_F2F_2016
>
> Thanks for your notes of the meeting.
>
> "Rest of World years should target a minimum of a break with a lower
> expectation of the share of surplus being returned to OSGeo. A larger
> share of any surplus should be reinvested into local OSGeo activities."
>
> Regarding the note above, such special arrangement should apply
> only when FOSS4G is organized in/by communities of the
> Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies as defined by the World Bank and
> WHO [1]. Cost of living and PPP [2] is considerable different in
> Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies and thereby the conference fee
> could be considerably lower.
>
> FOSS4G-2015 in Seoul adopted a special pricing for participants for
> Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies, which could be adopted in future
> conferences.
>
> "Rest of the World" would surely not include high income countries
> listed in [1], I think.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> [1] https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity
>
> >
> > Hope that this helps,
> >
> > Guido
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:58 PM Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Reminder
> >>
> >> Face to face meeting tomorrow at 16.00-17.00
> >>
> >> Suggest we meet at the reception desk and the funds somewhere to sit
> >> (perhaps by the river?)
> >>
> >>  Agenda at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee_F2F_2016
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Steven
> >>
> >>
> >> +44 (0) 7958 924101
> >> Sent from my iPhone
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