[Board] Board Digest, Vol 128, Issue 5

[Jody Garnett]

Translating - "terms of reference" --> I am going to guess you mean the
updating the motion that created the conference committee and provided it a
mandate to function. Checking online <http://www.osgeo.org/conference> I
can find "goals" but not a mandate, the wiki
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Goals> lists
responsibilities which is an improvement. Does anyone have the initial
motion that created the conference committee handy?

I am fine with the board handing over responsibility, conference committee
is in a much better position (and has more appropriate experience) to run a
travel grant program.

I will push back on the board determining "level of travel grant funding"
as I would expect this to be included as part of conference committee
budget request, or part of an initiative budget request if you choose to
run in collaboration with sponsorship. I am not sure how comfortable I am
with OSGeo taking on 100% of the funding for this activity - I prefer to a
collaborative approach with sponsors and partnerships.
--
Jody Garnett

On 5 May 2017 at 10:20, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suggest that the Board extends ConfCom terms of reference and then
> leaves CC to work out how to implement a policy
>
> Board will need to determine the level of travel grant funding for each
> budget year
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> Excellent, so would the idea be to update the conference committee mandate
> then?
>
> Or would the conference committee set this up as indicative (for program
> visibility and sponsorship)? ... similar to how the website/rebranding is
> being taken on as a one-off by the marketing committee.
>
> That is a bit of a strategic question so it may require thought / planning.
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> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:19 PM Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de> wrote:
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> Hi Jody,
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> I would propose to post this responsibility to the ConfCom. Some of the
> past chairs already were involved in such kind of decisions.
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> Till
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