[FOSS4G-Oceania] Travel grant program - call for ideas

[Martin Tomko]

Hi all,
No idea about uni accommodation. I am not aware of any run directly by uni, they usually refer you directly to the residential colleges. Hoinestly, I think AirBnB or couchsurfing is more flexible.
People could even discuss sharing FOSS AirBnB on the mailing list.
M.

From: adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, 12 July 2018 at 10:45 pm
To: Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>
Cc: Edoardo Neerhut <ed at mapillary.com>, "foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org" <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Travel grant program - call for ideas

Hey Ed, Martin, all

Responses inline...

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 at 16:29, Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au<mailto:tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>> wrote:
Quick comment following on Eduardo – some priority for Africa is nice, but we are a FOSS4G Oceania. So should we not make sure we get people from Oceania, or SE Asia first?

…I think this might be some hangover - I mistakenly initially broadcast the recipe FOSS4G in Dar Es Salaam is using. We should instead check out:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_Cookbook<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_Cookbook>

My apologies. I think it will be perfectly fine to prioritise regionally, including Australia - noting that Australia’s wealth is extremely poorly distributed.

Curious about the breakdown of the funding pool. Do you have any insights?
I would have thought there would be more use for fewer, higher value tiers above $1,000, rather than 24 $250 grants.

I roughly agree - in my mind is maybe 10 grants total, but even so, ten grants potentially add up to well over $10k just in travel!!! I haven’t thought it out much.

My inclination is to feel out how much money we will have to apply to the program, then design something from there.

I’m interested in what other people think! This should have as much robust input as possible.

Off the top of my head, if something as simple as covering visa fees is enough, we can make more grants available. If we need to fully fund transport, then we can't offer as many grants. I hope we can come up with something clever for accomodation some way - ie share an airBnB, I’m not sure how many people have spare rooms to offer these days in Australian cities :/. Actually - also - Martin - in late November, what’s the status of Uni accomodation?

Regarding eligibility, guessing that relates to GDP per capita?

As noted, I’ve created confusion about eligibility by referring to the wrong document. Sorry!

Cheers

Adam

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