[OSGeo-Conf] [OSGeo-Discuss] Travel Grants for regional FOSS4G events

[John Bryant]

Thanks Steven, please let me know if we can help in any way. Happy
beginning of a new year to all :)

On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 20:09, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks John for being so fast out of the blocks!
>
> We’ll get back to you once we have confirmation of budget and have
> finalised our process for allocating regional TGP funding
>
> Cheers
> ______
> Steven
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> On 31 Dec 2019, at 02:56, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot Steven,
>
> OSGeo Oceania will almost definitely be interested in running a TGP for
> FOSS4G SotM Oceania this year (planned for Fiji in November). We grew our
> program substantially this year (from 7 grantees in 2018 to 13 in 2019),
> and I suspect we'll want to expand the reach again this year, particularly
> given we're running it in the Pacific Islands. OSGeo support has been key
> to accessing additional sources of funding so we'll most likely be asking
> again this year.
>
> OSGeo granted us USD $2500 in 2019. The cost of travel in the Pacific is
> high, so if there is the potential to increase this for 2020, we'd be keen
> to discuss.
>
> Cheers
> John
>
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 02:31, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> This is an early heads up for organisers of regional FOSS4G events
>> (please share as appropriate)
>>
>> The Conference Committee has applied to OSGeo Board for a budget to run
>> Regional Travel Grant Programmes in 2020. We have not yet had our
>> application accepted but I wanted to make LOCs aware of the possibility of
>> applying for support for a TGP.
>>
>> You can find basic info on the TGP at
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_Cookbook
>>
>> If you think you might be interested in running a TGP for your regional
>> event in 2020 please ping a mail back on the Conference mailing list and we
>> will be in touch with you as soon as we know if we have budget available.
>>
>> May the FOSS be with you and have a happy new year
>> ______
>> Steven
>>
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