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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

I have opened a thread on Loomio for approval:
https://www.loomio.org/d/J81IU29z/use-gsoc-student-mobility-grant-at-fosdem-geospatial-devroom

Best,
Angelos

On 11/08/2017 06:19 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> If its just 1 then its really no problem.
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> From: Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 10:06 AM
> To: Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
> Cc: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>, osgeo-board List <board at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Board] Motion: use GSoC student mobility grant at FOSDEM geospatial devroom
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> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> For a limit of how many total grants?
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> It would be 1 grant for 1 student
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> I see its already been added to the board meeting agenda, that’s good.
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> 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.
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> We can just set the conditions for reimbursement beforehand and they have to accept them.
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> 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:
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>      Madi has clarified that this 500 USD is for 1 student's travel.  -jeff
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>      On 2017-11-08 9:38 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
>      > Dear OSGeo Board,
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>      > 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
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>      > 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
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>      > Kind regards,
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>      > [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/
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>      > Margherita Di Leo
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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