[Board] Travel Grant Funding Request for FOSS4G 2025

[Vincent Picavet]

Hello,

My global position is that we have a real and big problem regarding carbon impact of conferences, that we should tackle as an organization concerned by environmental topics. This is a large and complex problem, and will of course not be solved this time.

But more specifically concerning the demand, providing grants for travel will have a significant CO2 emission impact due to corresponding flights. I think the least we can do if we were to allocate travel grants, is to include carbon emissions compensation in the budget.

Best regards,

Vincent


On 12/12/2024 23:15, Alex Leith via Board wrote:
> Hi OSGeo Board
>
> I know you're in-between Boards, but I wanted to get in a request for travel grant funding for FOSS4G 2025 now, so it can go into the budget.
>
> FOSS4G 2025 will be held in Auckland and we're anticipating between 500-700 attendees. We'd like to run a substantial travel grant program, and will allocate a portion of sponsorship funds towards the program.
>
> We will be prioritising supporting attendance from the South Pacific, South-East Asia and South America, but will open to anywhere. Previous programs in Oceania have supported around 10 people per event to attend, and the event had around 150 people attending, so a little under 10%. If we can support 40+ people to attend the global event, that would be fantastic. The total cost for this will be something like $25-50 k USD.
>
> We'd like to request $10,000 USD from OSGeo to support this initiative. We will be requesting a similar amount from OSGeo Oceania, and as noted, will top this up as we achieve sponsorship.
>
> We also note that we will not be requesting seed funding from OSGeo.
>
> Thank you for your consideration!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Alex and Simon
> Co-Chairs FOSS4G 2025
>
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