[OSGeo-Conf] OSGeo Oceania TGP request - please act as soon as possible

[Steven Feldman]

Vasile I think CC already started to vote on this motion a month or more ago before Till, Eli and I stood down from CC

Regards
Steven


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> On 29 Nov 2022, at 09:26, Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> Apologies for the late reply due to personal problems.
> 
> Dear Conference Committee members,
> 
> Please consider Adam's message as an official motion and vote as usually and as described in Adam's message (thank you for the ones who already voted).
> 
> +1 from my side.
> 
> Warm regards,
> Vasile
> 
>> On 28.11.2022 20:49, Adam Steer wrote:
>> Hi conference committee
>> I'm writing to ask the committee to come to a decision about the OSGeo
>> Oceania TGP funding request [1]. While we don't see any negative
>> responses, there have not been enough votes to say "a decision has
>> been reached" [2,3]
>> We discussed how to proceed at the board meeting 28-11-2022 [4], and
>> decided that we do not want to over-ride decision processes which are
>> delegated to committees.
>> So, we ask the committee members who have not responded to find the
>> motion [5] in their inboxes and send a +1, 0, or -1 in response.
>> The idea of TGP applications going to this committee for approval
>> comes from the OSGeo TGP cookbook [6]. If the conference committee no
>> longer wants to make decisions about TGP funding, that is OK - and
>> also something you need to decide about then let the OSGeo Board know.
>> Because the conference is already underway, travel grant funds have
>> already been spent - so this is now a retrospective request. In any
>> case, the decision to commit funds (or not) needs to be made by the
>> conference committee as soon as possible.
>> Thanks, and kind regards,
>> Adam, on behalf of the OSGeo Board.
>> [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2022-October/005845.html
>> [2] votes summary:
>> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-November/013164.html
>> [3] current members:
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Current_Members
>> [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-11-28
>> [5] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2022-October/005845.html
>> [6] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_Cookbook
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