[FOSS4G-Oceania] Motion: increase TGP contribution

[Jonah Sullivan]

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On Tue, 11 Sep. 2018, 06:57 John Bryant, <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, I want to raise a motion to increase our contribution to our
> Travel Grant Program.
>
> Currently, we have committed 5 conference & workshop registrations (est
> cash cost $1500) plus $1500 cash, for a total of $3000. This is partly
> funded by community & sponsor contributions to the Good Mojo Fund, and
> partly out of our surplus.
>
> You'll recall, we're seeking $3000 in additional funding from OSGeo. With
> their contribution, we would be in a position to assist approx. 5 attendees
> through the TGP. Unfortunately, it's uncertain whether we'll get this
> additional funding. The OSGeo committee responsible for their TGP wishes to
> develop a policy before deciding on disbursing any funds, and effectively,
> we need to know before our application deadline of 21 Sep, so that we know
> how to proceed. It may be difficult for them to make a decision on this in
> the time frame we require.
>
> We're doing what we can - Adam is directly involved with OSGeo on this
> policy, and we've asked if they can expedite the process, or perhaps make
> an exception in our case while they consider their policy development.
> Fingers crossed.
>
> So, the motion is this:
>
> *We contribute an additional $3000 to our Travel Grant Program, which will
> enable us to support 5 attendees. In the event that OSGeo decides to make
> an additional contribution of $3000, as we've requested, we additionally
> contribute 3 full registrations (conference & workshop), so that we can
> support 8 attendees in total.*
>
>
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