[FOSS4G-Oceania] Motion: increase TGP contribution

[Daniel Silk]

+1

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:02 AM Jonah Sullivan <jonahsullivan79 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +1
>
> 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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