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

[Till Adams]

Dear @Board, @ConfCom

AFAIK there is still some TGP money left (we spent 10 out of 20k on the
global TGP, but nothing for any regional event yet). I would suggest to
accept this request, as it is not too much money and then use it in
order to promote this as a "sign" to other regional/local event
organizers...

What we need is a procedure on how to decide on such requests in general
- if we make a frist comes/first-run serves on TGP money, we will
probably run out of money quite early and events earlier in the year are
prefered.

Perhaps we could get the regional events on requesting for money in
advance before a defined deadline, so we can have an overview on all
regional events that request for TGP money once a year and then decide
on it? Maybe somehow difficult to handle, but in the end the same
procedure as the call for locations for the global event.

Maybe a point to be discussed in Dar?

Till


Am 30.07.2018 um 17:26 schrieb 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
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