[Board] Fwd: FOSS4G Europe 2020 request for seed funding

[Till Adams]

Dear Peteris,

the motion towards accepting your request for seed funding passed [1].
You may contact Michael, our treasurer, in order to fix the details on
how the money comes to you.

Regards, Till


[1]
https://www.loomio.org/d/7PLSuq6W/foss4g-europe-2020-request-for-seed-funding

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
Betreff: 	Re: [Board] FOSS4G Europe 2020 request for seed funding
Datum: 	Sat, 1 Feb 2020 12:04:54 +0200
Von: 	Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
An: 	board at lists.osgeo.org



Motion passed on loomio:
https://www.loomio.org/d/7PLSuq6W/foss4g-europe-2020-request-for-seed-funding


On 1/31/20 1:37 PM, Till Adams wrote:
> /done
>
> Am 31.01.20 um 11:21 schrieb Angelos Tzotsos:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Since we did not manage to discuss this during our meeting (due to
>> long agenda), lets make a motion on Loomio and get this approved, if
>> everyone is ok with the discussion.
>> This request aligns with our mission and we have provided seed money
>> to local events in the past.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Angelos
>>
>> On 1/31/20 9:49 AM, Till Adams wrote:
>>> Michael,
>>>
>>> cool, do we need a board decision on this or is it a more "just do
>>> it" ;-) ?
>>>
>>> Till
>>>
>>> Am 30.01.20 um 18:28 schrieb Michael Smith:
>>>> Till,
>>>>
>>>> We have provided seed funding to a regional conference, eg FOSS4G-NA.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Michael Smith
>>>> OSGeo Treasurer
>>>> treasurer at osgeo.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1/30/20, 12:24 PM, "Board on behalf of Jachym Cepicky"
>>>> <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of
>>>> jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      Hi Till and all,
>>>>           as far as I remember (as previous board member and
>>>> long-time shadowing
>>>>      chair of FOSS4G-Europe), seed money was always granted (under the
>>>>      condition, it will be returned back).
>>>>           Just my 0.02
>>>>           Thank you
>>>>           Jachym
>>>>           čt 30. 1. 2020 v 18:07 odesílatel Till Adams
>>>> <till.adams at fossgis.de> napsal:
>>>>      >
>>>>      > Dear Peteris,
>>>>      >
>>>>      > I am not sure, whether we had the case before, that a local
>>>> chapter asked OSGeo for seed money for their regional conference,
>>>> but maybe the older colleagues of the board may remember.
>>>>      >
>>>>      > If you ask me, I see no problems with helping out from the
>>>> OSGeo side, but as said, maybe the colleagues know better about such
>>>> cases than I do.
>>>>      >
>>>>      > Nevertheless, I have one quesiton: For our global FOSS4G
>>>> events OSGeo also helps LOC's with seed money and then these are
>>>> usually amounts between 20 and 40 k (recently even more). In this
>>>> case, OSGeo claims at least 80% of the surplus of the conference. Do
>>>> you have a plan, what should happen with a (potential) surplus of
>>>> the european confernece?
>>>>      >
>>>>      > Thanks, Till
>>>>      >
>>>>      >
>>>>      >
>>>>      > Am 27.01.20 um 16:32 schrieb Peteris Bruns:
>>>>      >
>>>>      > Dear Board,
>>>>      >
>>>>      > this mail comes from FOSS4G Europe Local team. I am Peteris
>>>> Bruns the Chair of FOSS4G Europe 2020.
>>>>      >
>>>>      > https://2020.europe.foss4g.org/
>>>>      >
>>>>      > We would like to ask for seed funds for FOSS4G-Europe 2020
>>>> which we are organizing for July 2020.
>>>>      >
>>>>      > We are expecting 200-300+ attendees.
>>>>      >
>>>>      > We already have some expenses we have that we would like to
>>>> cover. Some expenses we have already covered by our company, and
>>>> moust likely we will continue in some cases, but we would be happy
>>>> to reduce this dependency. So we would like to ask OSGeo for seed
>>>> 2.000 Euro money. We will pay the money back after the event.
>>>>      >
>>>>      > It would be great if you could find a descission in the board
>>>> meeting today. Please notice that Codrina Maria Ilie and Astrid Emde
>>>> are also in the organizing committee.
>>>>      >
>>>>      > With greetings from rainy Latvian winter,
>>>>      >
>>>>      > --
>>>>      > Peteris Bruns
>>>>      >
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-- 
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
Charter Member
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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