[OSGeo-Conf] travel grant program, FOSS4G SotM Oceania

[Till Adams]

just one thing reagrding TGp 2018 --  just visited the wiki page -- 
correct, that we did nit change the red wordings?

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_2018

Till ;-)



Am 30.04.2018 um 11:44 schrieb Steven Feldman:
> A couple of thoughts from me (currently in the weeds of the TGP for
> the main FOSS4G and also based on last year’s TGP)
>
>   * You will only have limited funding from OSGeo and should seek to
>     raise at least half of your TGP funds from a delegate donation on
>     registration or an optional levy from sponsors or a crowdfund
>     campaign from the wider community who may want to support people
>     attending your conference
>   * We have taken the view that grant recipients must have “skin in
>     the game” so we do not seek to cover the full cost of someone
>     getting to the event. But by providing some funds and a free pass
>      to the event we are probably covering half of the expenses. This
>     enables us to spread the limited grant funding further to reach
>     more people.
>   * We only pay the grants when people arrive at the event to ensure
>     that we do not have “no shows”
>
>
> Good luck and don’t hesitate to ask for help/advice
> ______
> Steven
>
>
>> On 30 Apr 2018, at 07:41, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com
>> <mailto:adam.d.steer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> g’day conference_dev
>>
>> We are in the process of setting up a joint FOSS4G and State of the
>> Map conference for the Oceania region in November this year.
>>
>> I’m writing to ask if, and how we could utilise the OSgeo travel
>> grant program.
>>
>> We would love to support attendees from remote Australian
>> communities; and further afield (pacific islands/rest of Oceania).
>> We’ve proposed a ‘good mojo’ contribution for conference sponsors,
>> which is specifically targeted at assisting with travel and measures
>> to help a diverse audience to attend (on top of aiming for some
>> funding from general sponsorship and ticket sales).
>>
>> However, we have no idea if that will raise enough to get anyone to
>> the conference - and accessing the OSgeo program would help provide
>> some certainty about how many people we could help with travel and
>> registration.
>>
>> Also, we would appreciate advice on how many travel grants are a good
>> number to offer for a regional conference (we forecast for 150-200
>> attendees at the moment).
>>
>> Your thoughts appreciated!
>>
>> Adam
>> (sponsorship lead)
>> (cc John Bryant and Alex Leith, conference co-chairs)
>>
>> -- 
>> Adam Steer
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