[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Handbook - Financial expectations

[Steven Feldman]

Maria

Nice image, what are you suggesting in terms of the RfP?
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Steven


> On 8 Sep 2016, at 22:03, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
> 
> <equity.jpg>
> 
> Dear Cameron
> I prefer to take into account the differences among countries. We want to elicit people developing and using open source and we want to walk all together toward this result. Equality often is not the best choice.
> Best regards
> Maria 
> 
> 
> Sent from my Samsung device
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> 
> Date: 08/09/2016 22:53 (GMT+01:00) 
> To: conference <conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org> 
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Handbook - Financial expectations 
> 
> Ok, lets start working through Steven's list one item at a time, 
> starting a new email thread for each.
> 
> Once we have resolution (probably concluding with a vote) we can 
> finalise it in the foss4g handbook.
> 
> 
> On 8/09/2016 9:12 PM, Steven Feldman wrote:
> > >1) Overall financial expectations re surplus and sharing of surplus with OSGeo - possibly setting slightly different expectations for RoW to NA & EU
> 
> We have draft principles on Finances in the handbook here:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook#Finances <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook#Finances>
> 
> I suggest using this existing text as the basis for guidance. I 
> personally think it has the right principles in place.
> In particular, it is recommending each conference aim to hand over a 
> fixed percentage of profits as surplus to OSGeo. 85% is suggested.
> I prefer this advise over the suggestion that low income countries 
> retain more profit.
> 
> -- 
> Cameron Shorter
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