[Board] Request for OSGeo Budget 2018

[Jody Garnett]

Till you have 6k from 2018 avaialble; since this was sponsored funds it
should carry over and be used for conference committee planning. Does this
change the amount requested for TGP supporting osgeo events?

aside: I usually reference FOSS4G TGP, supporting LOC, and Global TGP
supporting our events and activities world wide

--
Jody Garnett

On 14 November 2017 at 23:49, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de> wrote:

> Dear board,
> thanks for reaching out to us for our budget plans for 2018. The only
> budget the conference committees requests are funds for the travel grant
> programme (TGP). In general we would request the board to raise our
> resources as follows:
>
> - 20k US$ for TGP for global FOSS4G
>
> - 10k US$ for other TGP activities
>
> (For the latter we still owe a concept, how to perform this, it's on my
> list).
>
> Why raising TGP for FOSS4G? As you all noticed, there have been long
> discussions on "how to enable as many attendees as possible to join a
> global FOSS4G" in the past and I think it's still going on. One focus on
> this have been fees for the conference itself, but looking over the total
> costs including flight, accommodation, entrance fee and food, it is clear,
> that joining a FOSS4G, depending on where it is, can easily cause costs up
> to 3k US$ and even more.
>
> If we as foundation really want to enable more people to join these
> events, we have to put more energy and money in here. I think, the
> success-stories of the past TGP's are good examples for this.
>
> We as Conference Committee are especially aware of the TGP and put an
> emphasis on this topic by encouraging the teams of future FOSS4G's to
> explain how they want to implement the TGP and what they can/are willing
> contribute to it (starting crowd fundings, offer reduced fees for grantees
> or whatever).
>
> I'd suggest the following:
>
> Raise the TGP for global FOSS4G's to 20k US$, if the LOC's
>
> - offer reduced fees for the TGP (e.g. Early Bird for all grantees, as TGP
> normally decides later)
>
> - make efforts to raise the budget by other activities such as crowd
> funding and/or requesting community members/participants to pay a surplus
> (e.g.)
>
> For 2018 I think that could be quite easy by just rededicating the
> not-used 10k US$ from our 2017 budget, that were reserved for non-global
> FOSS4G TGP's, as there haven't been any ;-)
>
> If a general raise seems to be difficult, I'd like to request at least to
> raise the funds for TGP for the "other regions" conference, as they are
> prone to attract people from parts of the world, where we are not that
> strong as in Europe or NA. I think the Dar conference is a good example for
> this.
>
> Happy to answer your questions,
>
> Till
>
>
>
>
> Am 09.11.2017 um 09:10 schrieb María Arias de Reyna:
>
> Dear fellow member,
>
> I am reaching you (on bcc) because you are the official contact of one of
> the commitees of OSGeo: http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_
> officers.html
>
> We are trying to collect the budget requests for each commitee before the
> next board meeting (21st of November) to make sure we can approve them
> before the start of the year. If your commitee has any request for budget
> for 2018, this is the time and place to do so.
>
> To send it, you can either answer this email or send the budget directly
> to the board mailing list. Either way, it will end up in the board mailing
> list.
>
> Some resources that may help you on this task:
>  * https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2017
>  * https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2018
>
> At this moment (next two weeks) it doesn't have to be very detailed
> (although it will help us). We just need to know your plans for next year
> to make sure we can allocate money for all of our needs. And if we can't,
> we need to discuss priorities.
>
> If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Please, contact your
> fellow commitee members to make sure nothing important is missing on your
> budget request.
>
> Thanks for your collaboration,
> María.
>
>
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