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

[Jody Garnett]

Can this be handled by our GSOC organizers? As I understand each instructor
had some funds available from participation, there was a discussion earlier
in the year on options for using those funds.

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Jody Garnett

On 8 November 2017 at 05:38, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com> 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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