[OSGeo-Conf] [Board] travel grant discussion
Till Adams
till.adams at fossgis.de
Thu May 11 13:02:47 PDT 2017
what means "meet" ?
Am 11.05.2017 22:02, schrieb Jody Garnett:
> Thanks Til- quick reply from phone - board has an action item to meet
> with conference committee next week since there was no rep in today's
> board meeting.
>
> See mins for budget suggestions.
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:42 PM Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de
> <mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>> wrote:
>
> Dear Jody,
>
> will have a look through ASAP. Hope others from confComm will also.
>
> Maybe we schedule an IRC meeting for bringing this into motion?
>
>
> Till
>
>
>
>
> Am 10.05.2017 08:38, schrieb Jody Garnett:
>> Happy to share the document (see attached).
>> Travel Grant Guidelines
>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jYDOd87redxMHwT-xURcBrD7xwOeAPdVVLWZtIbM7-w/edit?usp=drive_web>
>>
>> I have put the travel grant thing on the agenda for Thursday
>> board meeting; while i am sure we can handle it a rep from the
>> conference committee may wish to attend.
>>
>> Aside: I am focused on this as part of our OSGeo inclusive goal
>> (so diversity and having it be broader in scope then just the
>> annual foss4g event. I know that will be hard to focus on since
>> foss4g boston has a short term need.
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 9 May 2017 at 23:30, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de
>> <mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks Eli for the sum up. I think the count of 9 votes (8 x
>> +1, 1 x +0) shows, that we have enough capacity to run this
>> topic.
>>
>> In general I think the voting result is clear - if the board
>> passes over this topic to us, we are ready to go.
>> Then we can proceed to the next step, as Jody suggested in
>> his mail from 4th of May and dive into his draft document.
>> @Jody, could you please share this doc with us?
>>
>> We have to keep Camerons thoughts in mind:
>> - my intention was a restriction to global FOSS4G, but may be
>> extended on a case by case basis to other events too - any
>> other opinions here?
>>
>> Also I think the handbook (that needs a re-work anyway) is a
>> good place:
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook
>>
>> Also we should care about Michaels last email and request to
>> care about Narcisse Mbunzama (email from 09.05.2017)
>>
>>
>> Regards, Till
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 10.05.2017 um 02:30 schrieb Eli Adam:
>>> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Steven Feldman<shfeldman at gmail.com> <mailto:shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Have we got enough votes to declare a decision? So far no one has voted -1
>>> I count eight +1s and one +0 so that is enough. [0]
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Decisions
>>>
>>>> What was the expiry time for voting?
>>> Rereading, Till's email, I now see that he set an entirely reasonable
>>> timeline of May 10th, [1]
>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2017-May/004344.html
>>>
>>> I mistakenly complained about an short timespan in my response
>>> apparently based on a terrible misreading of the date.
>>>
>>> I expect that Till will "6. The result will be clearly declared
>>> afterwards." [0] once the timeline expires.
>>>
>>> Best regards, Eli
>>>
>>> [0]https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Decisions
>>> [1]https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2017-May/004344.html
>>>
>>>> Steven
>>>> 07958 924 101
>>>>
>>>> On 9 May 2017, at 21:05, Michael Terner<mgt at appgeo.com> <mailto:mgt at appgeo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Off list, as not sure of process and this emanates from Jody (i.e., I assume
>>>> he knows process; and may have avoided cross post to ConfDev
>>>> intentionally?)...
>>>>
>>>> But, heads-up that from Board's perspective they're waiting for ConfDev to
>>>> report back, and are hoping for something by Thursday (see below)...
>>>>
>>>> MT
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Jody Garnett<jody.garnett at gmail.com> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [Board]
>>>> travel grant discussion To: "board at lists.osgeo.org"
>>>> <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org> <board at lists.osgeo.org>
>>>> <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org> I closed the loomio vote
>>>> while we wait for a response from the conference committee.
>>>> I note that discussion is getting into details
>>>> (finance,scope,value,history) rather than focused on the
>>>> question: Is the conference committee willing to accept the
>>>> responsibility for a travel grant program. I hope we can
>>>> hear back in time for our meeting Thursday, it would be
>>>> good to have this well underway by the end of the month (as
>>>> potential foss4g, foss4g-europe attendees will need to
>>>> apply shortly). -- Jody Garnett On 23 April 2017 at 22:25,
>>>> Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> As noted in last weeks meeting, we have an action to move travel grant
>>>>> discussion to email. The motivation is to build on the work done at FOSS4G
>>>>> 2015, FOSS4G 2016 and a few local events.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to propose:
>>>>> - A format, similar to code sprints, where any OSGeo event can apply for
>>>>> funds to run a travel grants
>>>>> - To repeat this is not a FOSS4G specific idea
>>>>> - I am interested in using travel grants to promote diversity within our
>>>>> community
>>>>>
>>>>> A final comment is that travel grants are not a viable solution to high
>>>>> event costs. If we wish to offer discounts for students we should do so
>>>>> (rather than lean on a travel grant program).
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jody Garnett
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