[Board] java 2018 code sprint

[Jody Garnett]

Update: In the past two days a number of sponsors have stepped forward to
support the code sprint, this considerably reducing financial risk of the
board supporting the code sprint.

I will update the loomio thread with this information also.
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Jody Garnett


On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 17:46, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> It has now been two weeks, since my initial email. We have reached out to
> potential sponsors via blog post
> <http://blog.geoserver.org/2018/09/24/java-2018-code-sprint/>, twitter
> <https://twitter.com/geowolf/status/1047157909304627200> and linkedin
> <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/high-open-source-cost-java-11-jody-garnett/>.
> And reached out to prior sponsors via email.
>
> I also found that several participants were changing their plans to attend
> based on these sponsorship emails (sigh). To allow these individuals to
> book flights I would like to request the board consider:
>
> *Request is $2000 Sprint Support following code sprint guidelines
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines> for Java 2018 Code
> Sprint <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Java_2018_Code_Sprint>*
>
>
> I have set up a thread on loomio
> <https://www.loomio.org/d/3PofcCBl/java-2018-code-sprint-support> so we
> can work on this now ahead of the next board meeting. For reference the code
> sprint guidelines <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines> and
> event budget
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bSuf32MjgP7NKZcqvV7IilpxakKdocJ4CPUEF8jq5Z4/edit?usp=sharing>
> .
>
> I am also reaching out to each project teams to see if they wish to
> support attendees financially. María you may wish to reach out to
> GeoNetwork PSC also?
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 13:04, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Java 11 is released tomorrow, a code sprint is taking shape
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Java_2018_Code_Sprint to help our project
>> teams.
>>
>> While it is my hope to make a budget request for next meeting ... I have
>> not had any sponsors step forward yet. And I like to have at lease some
>> sponsorship around to set a realistic budget as part of the code sprint
>> guidelines.
>>
>> We are casting a wide net to attract projects with GeoTools, GeoSever and
>> GeoNetwork expressing interest. Sadly gvSig has an existing event conflict.
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>
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