[Board] FOSS4G Europe 2020 request for seed funding

[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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