[Board] Motion: use GSoC student mobility grant at FOSDEM geospatial devroom

[Jeff McKenna]

Madi has clarified that this 500 USD is for 1 student's travel.  -jeff



On 2017-11-08 9:38 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
> Dear OSGeo Board,
> 
> I would like to propose a motion to be discussed at your earliest 
> convenience. I'm not sure how to do that, I assume I can write it in 
> this mailing list?
> This is my proposal.
> In the payment issued by Google for GSoC 2017, they accounted 500 USD as 
> a grant for GSoC students mobility. This money should be used as a 
> travel grant for GSoC students that would like to present their work to 
> conferences.
> I would like to propose that OSGeo use this money for the geospatioal 
> devroom at FOSDEM 2018 [1,2,3]. Why FOSDEM? Because for several years I 
> tried to invite GSoC students to present, they replied that they could 
> consider it only if there was a sort of economical aid. FOSDEM is a free 
> event and the amount of $500 should decently cover accommodation and 
> travel at least within Europe, but would make it also possible to join 
> from outside Europe with a small addition from their own pocket.
> Please let me know should you need any additional information / 
> clarification.
> Thank you in advance
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> [1] https://fosdem.org/2018/
> [2] https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2017-October/002633.html
> [3] Last year's geospatial devroom: 
> https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/
> 
> -- 
> Margherita Di Leo
> 
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