[OSGeo-Conf] Seed funding for conferences?
Paul Ramsey
pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Thu Mar 13 09:42:22 EDT 2008
Now that we have a balanced budget to work from, I'm preparing a
letter of agreement we can sign with GISSA to that effect.
On 3/13/08, Gavin Fleming <GavinF at mintek.co.za> wrote:
> Our experience has been that although our RFP stated that OSGeo would
> provide bridging funds, it seems the condition is that the board has to
> approve the budget first and wrap up an agreement.
>
> We've had no bridging funds from OSGeo, luckily GISSA was able to
> provide them and now that support monies are starting to come in we
> hopefully won't need any.
>
> OSGeo and GISSA have agreed (without a formal written agreement so far)
> to split any loss 1:1 and to split any profit 1:1:1 OSGeo:GISSA:SA
> geoinformation education fund.
>
>
> Gavin
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Cameron
> Shorter
> Sent: 11 March 2008 06:09 AM
> To: conference_dev
> Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Seed funding for conferences?
>
> I've been asked by a PCO tendering for FOSS4G2009 whether OSGeo provide
> seed funding to local FOSS4G committees to cover initial costs.
> How was seed funding handled by previous FOSS4G conferences?
>
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