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

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Till,

Thanks for this advice, I agree with this plan.  I also think a decision 
structure for handling TGP must be set up as soon as possible (and if it 
is not the Board or the Conference Committee, then maybe a new 
committee/team of volunteers, who manage this TGP process).  -jeff



On 2018-07-31 6:40 AM, Till Adams wrote:
> 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