[Board] community project contact draft email thread

[Jody Garnett]

I don’t want to make helping community projects conditional.

That said if the GSOC team wants to offer participating project additional
motivation such as what is described they can either a) work through the
board or b) form a committee and request a budget (to act independently).

I would encourage such an idea to have an additional deliverable beyond
what is outlined in GSOC, perhaps a video presentation of their work?

Info like the idea

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 12:35 AM María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Talking with Vicky she gave me this idea for community projects:
>
> If a community project wants money/help from OSGeo, they should
> participate in the GSoC. That shows they are:
>
> 1- Expanding their developers base (good for incubation process, if they
> ever go through it)
> 2-Proving open to collaboration
> 3-Improving their software
>
> GSoC gives 500€ per student that can be used through OSGeo. We can help
> them increasing/matching that budget.
>
> Usually they will not be able to participate so easily in GSoC directly,
> unless some big organizaron like OSGeo backs them up (I tried with some pet
> projects I wanted to expand, it doesn't work 😅).
>
> So it is a win win. It requires effort from their side but at the same
> time shows they are improving their software.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> El sáb., 22 dic. 2018 1:47, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> escribió:
>
>> So with that in mind,
>>
>> Here is a draft email for feedback before we send it out:
>>
>> *Subject: 2019 Community project budget*
>> *Good afternoon:*
>>
>> *We are reaching out to the osgeo community as part of setting our
>> foundation's budget for 2019. As a community project we would like to know
>> how we can help you in the year ahead.*
>> *The board is managing a budget for the community project program this
>> year and we invite your input, either to the board email email list, or by
>> participating in the January board meeting.*
>> *--*
>> *Jody Garnett, Board of Directors*
>>
>>
>> And a second draft for those in incubation:
>>
>> *Subject: 2019 Community project budget*
>> *Good afternoon:*
>>
>> *The OSGeo board is reaching out to our community as part of setting the
>> foundation's 2019 budget. The **board is managing a budget for the
>> community project program this year and invites your input, either on the
>> board email list, or by participating in the January board meeting.*
>>
>> *As incubation chair I am also putting together a budget request for 2019
>> and will be attending the board January board meeting. If your project has
>> plans to work towards graduation this year let's discuss on the incubation
>> list any ways we can help out financially. While the incubation committee
>> cannot hire someone to perform the code providence review (your team
>> gaining experience is part of incubation), we would be more than happy to
>> help your team members attend the OSGeo code sprint, or help setup a
>> face-to-face meeting with your incubation mentor.*
>> *--*
>>
>> *Jody Garnett, Incubation Chair*
>>
>>
>> Feedback welcome
>>
>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 16:32, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Action item out of yesterday's board meeting to reach out to community
>>> projects
>>> .
>>> - looking at managing community projects as a group as a board
>>> initiative, so a group budget
>>> - for those in incubation we are going to try and bump up the incubation
>>> budget to support incubation sprints
>>> - want to reach out to community projects asking for their input (assume
>>> input is sent to board email list?)
>>> -  I would like to mention a date for the January meeting if we can
>>> establish one :)
>>> - did I miss anything above?
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
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Jody Garnett
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