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

[Margherita Di Leo]

Mike,

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For a limit of how many total grants?
>

It would be 1 grant for 1 student

>
> I see its already been added to the board meeting agenda, that’s good.
>
> One thing that was a problem at FOSS4G2017 was trying to provide funding
> for multiple students, many wanted cash, which, while problematic, was
> doable at foss4g. I won’t be at FOSDEM to do this. Is it possible for OSGeo
> to fund the housing at FOSDEM directly for however many? Something to
> consider.
>

We can just set the conditions for reimbursement beforehand and they have
to accept them.

Thanks,

>
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On 11/8/17, 9:36 AM, "Board on behalf of Jeff McKenna" <
> board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> wrote:
>
>     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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Margherita Di Leo
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