[Board] Request for support of FOSS4G SotM Oceania community day

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Alex & FOSS4G-SotM Oceania committee,

Please note that the OSGeo Board meeting this Wednesday (maybe Thursday 
your time) has been moved to an hour earlier.

time: 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2018&month=8&day=1&hour=15&min=0&sec=0
agenda: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-08-01

-jeff



On 2018-07-08 10:52 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi Alex, John,
> 
> OSGeo is happy to support community day events such as this; I've added 
> it to the next Board meeting agenda, that will occur on 1st August.  It 
> would be great to have you or John attend the IRC meeting then, to 
> discuss this topic for approval (exact time of the meeting is still to 
> be confirmed): https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-08-01
> 
> For others: the request is for 1,475 USD
> 
> Thanks Alex!
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2018-07-08 7:34 AM, Alex Leith wrote:
>> Dear OSGeo Board members
>>
>> I am writing on behalf of the FOSS4G SotM Oceania Conference 
>> Committee. Myself (Alex Leith) and John Bryant are chairs of this 
>> conference organising committee, and we have our inaugural event 
>> planned for November this year in Melbourne, Australia. For more 
>> information, see: https://foss4g-oceania.org/.
>>
>> In accordance with the code sprint sponsorship guidelines here: 
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines we would like to 
>> submit an application for sponsorship for our 'Community Day', which 
>> will include code sprints on various OSGeo and related projects, in 
>> addition to mapathons on OpenStreetMap. The specific activities will 
>> be community driven.
>>
>> Our application document is here: 
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fKPn5tF8z3edeiidlPBShA5H3xR0mstdKyqG-VwlRrQ/edit?usp=sharing. 
>>
>>
>> We would welcome discussion of this sponsorship request, and John and 
>> I can make ourselves available to you for this.
>>
>> I look forward to hearing from you.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Alex Leith
>> FOSS4G SotM Oceania Co-Chair