[OSGeo-Conf] MOTION: Oceania TGP Application

[Eli Adam]

+0 Eli

(While enthusiastic for the TGP and the good work of OSGeo Oceania, I'm not sure that the conference committee is actually engaged and functioning enough to actually approve this - hence the initial lack of responses.  I'll assume that Till and Steven checked our budget.  We very much need new champions on the Conference Committee.)

Best regards, Eli

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On 25 Oct 2022, at 09:49, adams at osgeo.org<mailto:adams at osgeo.org> wrote:

Hi ConfComm,

Adam contacted me directly and asked what happened to their application.

I motion to support the chapter from the OSGeo Travel Grant Fund in the
amount of USD$3,500.

+1 Till


Till

Am 10.10.22 um 23:24 schrieb Alex Leith:
Hi Folks

For the first time The Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Council (PGRSC),
OSGeo Oceania and HOT OSM are collaborating to present the 2022 GIS
users conference in Oceania. The conference series has been running in
Fiji for about 20 years and is the largest GIS and RS Conference in the
Pacific, with content covering applications of FOSS and open data. This
year will be enriched with additional formal integration into the FOSS4G
community, combining the annual FOSS4G and SoTM Oceania event with the
PGRSC conference. Thus, a new conference name will be used to represent
this new venture: "The Pacific Geospatial Conference''.

The Pacific Geospatial Conference will be held from 28th November to 2nd
December at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji and the
theme will be “Digital Platforms, GIS and Remote Sensing to anticipate
and manage impacts of Global Warming.”

Following the success of our Travel Grant Program (TGP) in 2018 and
2019, OSGeo Oceania is offering a TGP for the 2022 Pacific Geospatial
Conference, aimed at enabling attendance for people who are
disadvantaged by economic circumstances and/or geography. Oceania is a
vast region, with a highly distributed population, a large proportion of
which is in small, lesser-developed countries. Travelling to Fiji could
be difficult and expensive, even for local communities in the most
remote areas of the country, and visas are also costly.

There is a strong need in this region for this type of program, and
there are clear economic and social benefits of spreading open
geospatial knowledge to those who stand to gain the most. The TGP’s goal
is increasing the diversity, accessibility, and reach of the conference.
We want to support worthy recipients who are interested in gaining
in-depth insight into development and application of open-source
geospatial software and are committed to making an impact in their home
country, given the opportunity provided.

To support this program, we are requesting support from the OSGeo Travel
Grant Fund in the amount of USD$3,500.

We are pleased to confirm we are prepared to more than match OSGeo's
contribution with our own funds. OSGeo Oceania has already approved a
cash contribution of AUD$5000 (approximately USD$3500) and we also hope
that OSGeo's contribution will act as a 'seed' for other funders, such
as NGOs and government grants.

There is more information available in this
document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DYf-nTKN1NI5kAOlZHuLX1hQ750W_b_1/edit#
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DYf-nTKN1NI5kAOlZHuLX1hQ750W_b_1/edit#>
(also attached as a PDF for posterity).

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

--
Alex Leith
Treasurer, OSGeo Oceania
m: +61 419 189 050

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