[Board] Travel Grant Funding Request for FOSS4G 2025

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear Alex,

The FOSS4G 2025 TGP budget has been approved.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 12/13/24 00:15, 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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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President, Board of Directors
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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