[FOSS4G2016] FOSS4G2016 travel grants

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Dear LOC!

Looks like we get some problem with our plans regarding the travel 
grants. On the one side Christoph did a lot of efforts to collect some 
money from various organisations, but looks like this is hard to 
realize. Not to say, that we give up here, but it looks not really 
promising (Christoph, I know there is an open request about our Google 
point of contact - I'll look in the sponsorship sheet and sent it to you 
ASAP).
On the other side there is the discussion with the board about backin 
up us 10k € for the travel grant which does not really go straight 
forward. I just sent an email and requested for an urgent decision.

Don't know really how to proceed in case that we won't get a clear 
signal from the board soon, although I indicated the pressure here.

Anyhow. Last year LOC gave the possibility to attendees to donate some 
more money while registering which then was used for the travel grant 
programme. After long discussions wqith our PCO, who supplies the 
registering system, we decided to swap that from there. The fact that we 
have to issue invoices with two different tax rates (7% / 19%) is 
complicated enough for them. What we, FOSSGIs e.V. have is a Paypal 
account where people can easily donate money to and I think we should 
use that and also publish our "Call for stock up the travel grant 
programme". This could be released in our press releases and we also can 
twitter this - so I see the chance to collect money is even better, 
because nobody has to ask his/her boss when paying for the conference 
about donating. We also can issue donation receipts from FOSSGIS, as we 
are a nonprofit organisation.

For this I created  ticket: http://foss4g2016.org/redmine/issues/290


Till