[OSGeo-Conf] [Board] travel grant discussion
Till Adams
till.adams at fossgis.de
Thu May 11 13:03:41 PDT 2017
Worksforme ;-)
Am 11.05.2017 22:03, schrieb Jody Garnett:
> Hangout or IRC.
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:02 PM Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de
> <mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>> wrote:
>
> 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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>> --
>> Jody Garnett
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> Jody Garnett
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