[Board] Fwd: Oceania TGP Application

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear Alex,

The board started reviewing your request today during the board meeting 
and we will provide feedback soon.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 10/24/22 10:01, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
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> Subject:     Fwd: Oceania TGP Application
> Date:     Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:13:49 +1100
> From:     Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>
> To:     Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 08:24
> Subject: Oceania TGP Application
> To: conference <conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: OSgeo - Oceania <oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Hi Folks
>
> For the first time The Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Council (PGRSC),
> OSGeo Oceania and HOT OSM are collaborating to present the 2022 GIS users
> conference in Oceania. The conference series has been running in Fiji for
> about 20 years and is the largest GIS and RS Conference in the Pacific,
> with content covering applications of FOSS and open data. This year 
> will be
> enriched with additional formal integration into the FOSS4G community,
> combining the annual FOSS4G and SoTM Oceania event with the PGRSC
> conference. Thus, a new conference name will be used to represent this 
> new
> venture: "The Pacific Geospatial Conference''.
>
> The Pacific Geospatial Conference will be held from 28th November to 2nd
> December at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji and the 
> theme
> will be “Digital Platforms, GIS and Remote Sensing to anticipate and 
> manage
> impacts of Global Warming.”
>
> Following the success of our Travel Grant Program (TGP) in 2018 and 2019,
> OSGeo Oceania is offering a TGP for the 2022 Pacific Geospatial 
> Conference,
> aimed at enabling attendance for people who are disadvantaged by economic
> circumstances and/or geography. Oceania is a vast region, with a highly
> distributed population, a large proportion of which is in small,
> lesser-developed countries. Travelling to Fiji could be difficult and
> expensive, even for local communities in the most remote areas of the
> country, and visas are also costly.
>
> There is a strong need in this region for this type of program, and there
> are clear economic and social benefits of spreading open geospatial
> knowledge to those who stand to gain the most. The TGP’s goal is 
> increasing
> the diversity, accessibility, and reach of the conference. We want to
> support worthy recipients who are interested in gaining in-depth insight
> into development and application of open-source geospatial software 
> and are
> committed to making an impact in their home country, given the 
> opportunity
> provided.
>
> To support this program, we are requesting support from the OSGeo Travel
> Grant Fund in the amount of USD$3,500.
>
> We are pleased to confirm we are prepared to more than match OSGeo's
> contribution with our own funds. OSGeo Oceania has already approved a 
> cash
> contribution of AUD$5000 (approximately USD$3500) and we also hope that
> OSGeo's contribution will act as a 'seed' for other funders, such as NGOs
> and government grants.
>
> There is more information available in this document:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DYf-nTKN1NI5kAOlZHuLX1hQ750W_b_1/edit# 
>
> (also attached as a PDF for posterity).
>
> I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Kind regards,
>

-- 
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos