[Board] FOSS4G Europe 2020 request for seed funding
Till Adams
till.adams at fossgis.de
Fri Jan 31 03:31:20 PST 2020
Dear Peter, Jachym,
I started a loomio vote for the board members on your request on [1]. I
set the deadline for voting to next friday, I hope this is okay for you.
@Board colleagues, please vote ;-)
Regards, Till
[1]
https://www.loomio.org/d/7PLSuq6W/foss4g-europe-2020-request-for-seed-funding
Am 31.01.20 um 09:53 schrieb Till Adams:
>
> Peteris,
>
> as Michael and Jachym confirmend, the usus earlier was already to
> support regional conferences with seed money. I am in the process of
> clearing that insise the board, but I see no obstacles, so don't worry ;-)
>
> Regarding the "hundreds hours of work": Don't see it as work, see it
> as fun ;-) (that is what we did in 2016)
>
> Till
>
> Am 31.01.20 um 09:02 schrieb Peteris Bruns:
>> Hi Till,
>>
>> We hope that own company won’t need to fund much more this event
>> outside couple of hundreds of hour work and extra many thousands to
>> reach break even for this conference. :) as we plan to keep
>> conference budget as low as possible so that people can afford it,
>> very likely we won’t have surplus for conference. So it won’t be
>> biggest issue to commit for 80% potential surplus to be paid back for
>> OSGeo. If there is as example big losses of let’s say -5000 is there
>> option seed money become actually grant? Currently not knowing of
>> participant readiness to join event in north eu region could feel
>> bigger concern than surplus for conference.
>>
>> In any case we understand and accept rule of paying 80% of surplus
>> would be ok.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 at 09:50, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de
>> <mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>> 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 <mailto:treasurer at osgeo.org>
>> >
>> >
>> > On 1/30/20, 12:24 PM, "Board on behalf of Jachym Cepicky"
>> <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> <mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of
>> jachym.cepicky at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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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>> > --
>> > Jachym Cepicky
>> > e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com
>> > URL: http://les-ejk.cz
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