[Board] [Incubator] request from zoo-project

[Jody Garnett]

Gerald your project has not graduated and does not have standing as an
OSGeo committee.

The incubation committee has been given responsibility of running a budget
for community projects, including ZOO-Project. Your PSC helped by adding
our our budget request in 2018 and I am in this email thread going through
the steps to release the funds to your project. Prior activity has resulted
in private emails being sent to me, this time I am communicating in the
clear - in part to encourage other Community Projects to take part in OSGeo
and take advantage of the support we can offer as an organization.

The history of the ZOO-Project is not at issue here, we need an officer to
act on your behalf, and until you complete graduation you do not have an
officer of your own.
--
Jody Garnett


On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 at 10:05, Gérald Fenoy <gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr> wrote:

> Dear OSGeo Board and OSGeo Incubator committee members,
> I come to you as the PSC Chair of ZOO-Project, for requesting
> clarification on the following issue occurring to our project.
>
> As the ZOO-Project PSC, we think it is our responsibility to deal with the
> budget that has been approved by the OSGeo board of directors. It is the
> reason why we have taken the time to vote on the motion to use the budget
> allocated to the ZOO-Project for the 2018 year. The vote has occurred
> publicly and every PSC member has voted +1 [1]. Then, I have asked directly
> the OSGeo treasurer for the funds to be transferred to the ZOO-Project as
> it has been done in the past.
>
> In case the rules have changed then, the ZOO-Project PSC (I don’t know if
> this applies to other projects too) should have been informed of such a
> change. Indeed, we would have time to make the appropriate actions and
> avoid proposing workshops or presentations we would not be able to provide
> due to sudden restrictions in budget, in case you use it to attend a
> conference hosted by OSGeo.
>
> Also, I would like to make mention that back in 2017 we had made a similar
> vote by the PSC [2] and the funds were transferred without any interaction
> with the incubation committee. I think it is the proper way to proceed,
> have the budget approved by the board then let the project PSC deal with
> the budget. Anyway, it again happened earlier this year, when we were
> asking funds for attending the Bonn Code Sprint and proceeded in the exact
> same way [3].
>
> I would like to especially point out that the ZOO-Project is participating
> in OSGeo and attends every single FOSS4G for a decade now, where both
> ZOO-Project workshops and presentations are given. In case the OSGeo
> Incubation committee thinks it is of no importance to have a representative
> of the OSGeo projects and/or incubating projects at FOSS4G, then there is
> no issue with this. Nevertheless, this would require a public clarification.
>
> Thanks for your time and have a great day ahead.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/zoo-psc/2018-July/000740.html
> [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/zoo-psc/2017-July/thread.html
> [3] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/zoo-psc/2018-March/000739.html
>
> Gérald Fenoy
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay
>
> > Le 16 juil. 2018 à 09:13, Dimitris Kotzinos <kotzino at gmail.com> a écrit
> :
> >
> > Hi Jody,
> >
> > as the mentor of the ZOO-project, I fully support the request.
> >
> > Dimitris
> >
> >
> > On 16/07/2018 07:57, Jody Garnett wrote:
> >> The treasurer has received a request from the zoo-psc for funding so me
> >> travel to foss4g (where some presentations on ZOO-Project and MapMint
> >> are taking place):
> >>
> >> * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/zoo-psc/2018-July/000749.html
> >>
> >> Reminder ZOO-Project, along with several other community projects, made
> >> budget requests here:
> >>
> >> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2018#Community_Projects
> >>
> >> ZOO-Project has not completed graduation and does not have an officer of
> >> their own, so I guess this falls on me as incubation chair to make the
> >> request on behalf of the ZOO-Project PSC.
> >>
> >> /As incubation chair this looks fine, the ZOO-Project is both planning
> >> ahead with a budget request, and making use of the funding in a
> >> productive fashion. I kind of wish many of our other projects were as
> >> engaged./
> >>
> >> I am happy to make the request, I will give it 24 hours in case any
> >> ZOO-Project PSC members, or incubation committee members, wish to
> >> provide input.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jody Garnett
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