[Board] Travel Grant Funding Request for FOSS4G 2025

[Alex Leith]

Hi Vincent

It’s our intention to carbon offset our conference. We did this for our
conference this year in Hobart, and will do it for Auckland.

Kind regards,

*Alex Leith*
m: +61 419 189 050
https://auspatious.com


On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 at 10:27 pm, Vincent Picavet <vincent.ml at oslandia.com>
wrote:

> 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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> *Alex Leith*
> m: +61 419 189 050
> https://auspatious.com
>
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