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

Tue May 9 08:12:44 PDT 2017

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan
<venka.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> OSGeo has partially support travel grants since our
> 2015 conference in Seoul. If my memory serves me
> right, the LoC also came up with some additional
> funds to support local expenses (paying shared rooms) for
> recipients of OSGeo travel grants. I also remember that,
> that the travel grant was not directly paid to Seoul LoC,
> but the amount was deducted from the surplus that the
> Seoul returned to OSGeo.
>
> I am of the opinion that the arrangement adopted at FOSS4G-Seoul
> 2015 worked quite well without putting much burden on the LoC.
>
> Our FOSS4G-Bonn LoC requested 10KUSD as Travel support from OSGeo
> and it was paid in advance. I am not aware how many participants
> had their travel supported in Bonn nor do I know if the Bonn LoC
> provided any additional funds to support the travel grantees.
>
> I think we need to discuss the pros and cons of the model adopted
> in Seoul (2015) and Bonn (2016) and choose the best option.

Both of these built on the Portland (2014) program,
http://2014.foss4g.org/travel-grant-epilogue/index.html

http://2014.foss4g.org/attending/discounts-and-grants/index.html

Kristin did much of the 2014 Travel Grant Program and subsequently
worked on several others.

Best regards, Eli

>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> On 5/6/2017 3:47 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> -------- Messaggio originale --------
>> 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.
>> --
>> 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
>> ______
>> Steven
>>
>>
>> On 5 May 2017, at 16:28,
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>>   2. Re: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Boston Travel Grants ~ IMPORTANT
>>      request (Jody Garnett)
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>> Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 06:31:00 +0000
>> From: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com<mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>>
>> To: Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de<mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>>,
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>> IMPORTANT request
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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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