<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><input name="virtru-metadata" type="hidden" value="{"email-policy":{"state":"closed","expirationUnit":"days","disableCopyPaste":false,"disablePrint":false,"disableForwarding":false,"enableNoauth":false,"expires":false,"isManaged":false},"attachments":{},"compose-id":"19","compose-window":{"secure":false}}"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 1:31 PM adam steer <<a href="mailto:adam.d.steer@gmail.com" target="_blank">adam.d.steer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Conference dev folks<div><br></div><div>I wrote and deleted a long post which said effectively +1 to Mark’s comments. The very short version is that air travel is pretty much the only way to get around much of Oceania, and as such needs to be an option (cruise ships are another, but very dirty also).</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 to a lot of what Mark said. Mark (and the Dar LOC) certainly set a high standard for what the TGP can be. I was certainly glad to help a little bit on that process (and seeing how much the TGP had grown since some of our efforts in PDX was humbling - nice work). But again these are criteria that will be set by the LOC running that individual TGP.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I’m struggling a little with Eli’s idea of funding based on expected conference attendance. Again, in Oceania conferences might not be huge but TGP support costs are high. I’d preference assessment on a case by case basis (ie the conference LOC puts up a proposal, it is assessed - but proposals all have to be submitted in the open), with maybe some work to develop guidelines around ‘if you live in region X, plan around cost Y per TGP funded attendee’. Of course, this is prima facie unfair because it’s a lot cheaper to support a TGP attendee in Tanzania than it is in Oceania. Food for thought/further discussion.</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My suggestion was intended as a general starting guideline and not intended as rigid. </div><div><br></div><div>Oceania (or other regions) can certainly make their case for why their portion should be multiplied by Z. </div><div><br></div><div>Also, different regions may be able to support a different number of TGP recipients based on various factors. I've made cases for TGP recipients very near (and costing very little) as well as very distant with poor transportation connectivity (and costing a sizable portion of the total TGP but there were not going to be closer/easier FOSS4G events for them in the near future, but maybe they would be the seed that grows FOSS4G there). </div><div><br></div><div>Hopefully we take a reasonable approach that is open to reason, revision, and flexibility and gets better over time. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards, Eli</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>…and of course, a fine rebuttal would be ‘work harder on sponsorship/fundraising! There’s money in the region, extract it!'</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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