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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Jan 2019, at 08:11, María Arias de Reyna <<a href="mailto:delawen@gmail.com" class="">delawen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 8:49 AM Till Adams <<a href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" class="">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Dear Maria,<br class=""><br class="">many thanks for reaching out to us. As outlined in Dar Es Salaam<br class="">already, we would like to extent the travel grant programme.<br class=""><br class="">There are several ideas, on how to distribute available money.<br class=""><br class="">For the TGP for 2019 we would like to request for 25.000 $, we plan to<br class="">dediacte 50-60% of this for the global event and the balance to support<br class="">regional events.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Noted. Thanks!<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Regarding the distribution for regional events, I favour to publish a<br class="">date once (or twice) a year and request for events to apply for support<br class="">of their TGP - but this is not discussed yet.<br class=""><br class="">I've updated the table in [1].<br class=""><br class="">There are two things to clear:<br class=""><br class="">1. How does our budget fit to the Travel Grant program listed further<br class="">down on [1] unter the topic "OSGeo Initiatives 2019" ?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">We can list however you feel more comfortable. See next question.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">2. Do we have to get approval from the board for every single event, we<br class="">want to support (as we did last year when supporting TGP of the Oceanian<br class="">chapter conference) ?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I think the TGP wasn't listed in the Conference row just because there<br class="">was no clear procedure on the Conference Committee for local TGP so<br class="">the Board had to approve every new amount. The local TGP was a<br class="">successful experiment last year, but required explicit approval from<br class="">the Board. If Conference Committee define clear procedures and we<br class="">assign a budget at the beginning of the year, then you can just use<br class="">that budget without asking us. The things the Board has to approve<br class="">explicitly is the things that are not defined on the initial budget or<br class="">that are over the initial budget. That's why we ask now for some<br class="">details, so we don't have to ammend later.<br class=""><br class="">And personally I prefer to delegate to committees, the Board is<br class="">already overworked with macro management, if we also have to micro<br class="">manage, we get easily to bottle necks and we slow down a lot.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><br class="">So far, Till<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">[1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2019" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2019</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Am 13.01.19 um 19:20 schrieb María Arias de Reyna:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear OSGeo Conference Committee,<br class=""><br class="">OSGeo is reaching out to all committees, to help plan our budget for<br class="">2019. Teams with an annual plan (to pursue a specific goal) are<br class="">welcomed to send a detailed request for approval (e.g.<br class=""><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019</a>)<br class=""><br class="">A good idea is to focus on OSGeo participation, for example attending<br class="">the AGM or OSGeo code sprint or extending outreach of the committee.<br class="">Also keep in mind OSGeo goals as an organization, (e.g.<br class="">interoperability goal: CITE compliance or participation developing new<br class="">standards)<br class=""><br class="">We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to assist<br class="">your committee. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of<br class="">funding.<br class=""><br class="">Please add your project info to the budget draft at:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2019" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2019</a><br class=""><br class="">ideally by the end of January and ahead of our January board meeting.<br class=""><br class="">When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision and goals<br class="">of our foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.<br class=""><br class="">Thank you and best wishes,<br class=""><br class="">On behalf of OSGeo Board,<br class=""><br class="">María<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>