[Board] R: Board Digest, Vol 128, Issue 5

Fri May 5 23:47:25 PDT 2017

Dear Jody and All
I share the same thought:

  "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"
Let us discuss it in the next Board meeting and then we'll vote in Loomio.
Best,
Maria

Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung

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Da: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
Data: 05/05/17 22:08 (GMT+01:00)
A: Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com>
Cc: OSGeo Board <board at lists.osgeo.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Board] Board Digest, Vol 128, Issue 5

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.
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Jody Garnett

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

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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.

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:19 PM Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de<mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>> wrote:

Hi Jody,

I would propose to post this responsibility to the ConfCom. Some of the
past chairs already were involved in such kind of decisions.

Till

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