[Board] Sponsoring FOSS4G 2018

[michael terner]

Maria & Board:
Thanks for your consideration of the DLOC's request for sponsorship.
Indeed, this will be an incredibly important source of funding to help
achieve the Dar conference's vision of broadening access as widely as
possible, including having as large a TGP and as many free passes for
local, African attendees as can be supported.

I just wanted to point out that your concern about "...following FOSS4G LOC
asking for similar support" is actually bounded. What "similar support"
means is that that a future conference would not need to accept an OSGeo
advance and guarantee of the advanced funds. Indeed, the Boston team took
advantage of the advance and guarantee and they were extremely valuable.
For various reasons, the Dar team has *not* needed the advance, nor the
guarantee, and thus the sponsorship would be the *only financial support* that
is being received from OSGeo. The Boston Team, in our proposal, offered
OSGeo gold sponsorship in recognition of the "funding support" that the
advance and guarantee represented. If Vasile, or other future conferences
can get off the ground and going without an advance and guarantee, then
from my point-of-view, they - like Dar - should be supported through a paid
sponsorship which provides real value back to *all sponsors *including
things like free tickets, exhibit space and named events.

Indeed, the Dar conference is quite different in many, many ways from
previous FOSS4Gs, including the financial arrangements.

Thanks again for the Board's consideration and broad-based support for
Platinum sponsorship!

MT



On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:18 PM María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:14 PM, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> So, we had some discussion about this on previous IRC meetings. As this
>> year we didn't give any seed money for the organization of the main FOSS4G,
>> we were planning to give sponsorship money. Remember that not used money
>> goes back to OSGeo anyway.
>>
>> This year there is a special effort on Travel Grant, so most of the
>> sponsorship money will be used for it. We want to support and push OSGeo in
>> Africa.
>>
>> Here is the latest loomio poll:
>> https://www.loomio.org/d/TaRPqFbs/platinum-sponsorship-for-foss4g-2018
>>
>> The motion didn't pass with a -1.
>>
>> Let the discussion start!
>>
>
> In my opinion, we should invest the equivalent of the Platinum
> sponsorship. If it is either half through Gold, half through TGP or full
> through Platinum, I am fine with both options. It is true that having a
> high level of sponsorship may come with following FOSS4G LOC asking for
> similar support. But here we have two coincident facts: next year is in the
> hands of Vasile, who knows the situation and we want to give a push to
> Africa.
>
> If some other future FOSS4G have a similar situation (like give a push on
> South America or similar), I would push for the same level of sponsorship,
> if we can afford it.
>
> So if to simplify we give everything as Platinum sponsorship we will have
> all the advantages of Platinum and the same push to TGP. Right?
>
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