[Board] java 2018 code sprint

[Jody Garnett]

I am always careful to recognize companies (or any organization) as
providing an "in-kind" contribution if they are supporting the event in a
non financial way (providing staff time for example).

I want to avoid the situations the that some our our partners find
themselves in - trying to put a financial value on participation. It both
underplays the importance of participation (the really limiting factor in
our open source endeavours) and loses track of the financial component of
sponsorship.

We could talk more about this if you are interested, but the short term
need is to reach out to sponsors. We have several potential attendees who
we would like to help. Last year we raised 7k I believe for this event
(between sponsors and OSGeo).

--
Jody Garnett


On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 07:22, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ah, that makes sense.
>
> On the worst case, companies that invest time can exchange that for
> "sponsorship"? How did we do this in previous years?
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 4:19 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > We are trying (as with previous years) to get venues for free or in-kind
> - and put funding towards making the participation less of a financial
> burden for contributors.
> > --
> > Jody Garnett
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 07:07, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In Sevilla we can probably run without money. There won't be food or
> >> beverages, but we can have some places for free. Of course, if we can
> >> have money we can do it better (on a more comfortable/isolated place),
> >> but it is not mandatory to be able to run it.
> >>
> >> Do you have any idea of the budget required by the other venues?
> >> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:05 PM 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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