[FOSS4G-Oceania] Motion: increase TGP contribution

[Alex Leith]

+1

How are we going with applications?

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 07:23 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +0 I don't feel strongly, but trust John's judgement in calling this
> motion.
>
> Adam, can you please loop me in on conversations around developing a TGP
> policy. This is something I'd like to help OSGeo with if I can find the
> time.
>
> Cheers, Cameron
>
> On 11/09/2018 7:03 AM, Daniel Silk wrote:
>
> +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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