[Board] TGP policy/FOSS4G SotM Oceania

[Steven Feldman]

Hi

I’ve been offline for a few days. I would support a proposal to OSGeo Board that we allocate $2,000 to the FOSS4G Oceania TGP

I don’t know what the procedure is to get board ok and then funds transfer to the Oceania team, hence I have copied this mail to the board list.

We can also provide you with a copy of our application form and notes on how we did selection if that helps but you should not feel obliged to follow use/modify our form.

Some suggestions from me (based on experience of 2 big TGP’s)
You will receive way more applications than you can fill. Choose some criteria for grants that help you  to target the group(s) you want to facilitate and enable you to weed out other applicants quickly. Be clear about your criteria and who you will give priority to in your application form
Recipients need to have some "skin in the game” i.e they are making a partial contribution towards their cost of travel and expenses
Grants should not be paid out to recipients until they have arrived at the conference registration desk. You will need to make this clear to applicants in the application form and again when you notify them of award. This avoids a no show having received a grant in advance. I think this should be a PRECONDITION OF OSGEO TGP FUNDING

Till is chair of the Conference Committee so he may wish to add some thoughts to this mail

May the FOSS be with you
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Steven


> On 10 Sep 2018, at 05:48, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys, just want to reiterate what Adam said, and stress that we will need to know in advance of our 21 Sept closing date, if we're to execute this efficiently. Our TGP attendees will mostly be flying from the Pacific Islands, so they will need significant lead time to arrange visas and book flights - we're already pushing it, so won't be able to push dates back at all.
> 
> Plenty of submissions so far - we shouldn't have any trouble at all finding deserving attendees.
> 
> I appreciate you 3 are in some pretty difficult time zones to work together, so I can see some challenges to getting a proper OSGeo TGP policy in place before our deadline. I'm hopeful we could act as a guinea pig to some degree, and help contribute to the OSGeo policy by experience.
> 
> Our request <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RDlzFH5fyciTqY3xyj6aSvdOF8TOSX4MYosy7YNc9K0> is for AUD $3k (a little over USD $2k), and we're putting in the equivalent of about AUD $3k cash (AUD $4500 in doc includes value of full ticket price). We're considering putting in more, but hoping to get some indication of the probability of securing the OSGeo support first.
> 
> Thanks a lot & appreciate your work on this amazing program, whether we manage to get our conference on board or not.
> 
> Cheers!
> John
> 
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 at 11:07, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com <mailto:adam.d.steer at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi Michael, Steven
> 
> What needs to happen to get a TGP policy done? We’re champing at the bit because we’re closing applications in just under two weeks (21 September), and would like some certainty about whether the program will be funded by OSgeo or not.
> 
> I appreciate that OSgeo want a policy for regional TGPs in place - so - what can we do to expedite that?
> 
> Or: can we write the policy on the fly as we go and learn? 
> 
> We’re more than happy to remind the board or conference committee about our TGP and what we’re after...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Adam
> 
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