[Board] Travel Grant Funding Request for FOSS4G 2025

[Alex Leith]

Thank you, Angelos. And please pass on our thanks to the Board on behalf of
our local organising committee 🙂



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


On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 at 4:52 am, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/
>
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