[FOSS4G2016] travel granting - your opinion

[Christoph Baudson]

Hi Till,

thanks for your thoughts.

First of all, is it possible to link to the travel grants donation page
during checkout? Kristin Bott told me they raised about 1K $ in 2014 by
this. Is the donation paypal account ready? What is the paypal account's
address?

Regarding your suggestions:

1. I think the point system sounds great. Will we decide in the next irc
meeting? I would like to have it on the travel grants section on the
website - I will start and prepare a text, I will also start work on
http://foss4g2016.org/redmine/issues/290. I will post a draft by
tomorrow night.

2. Accomodation and conference pass: +1
I also like the idea of travel funding for students joining the
studentship programme. Maybe these students could get a bonus point in
the point system above. Maybe this would also create an incentive for
students to work for us.

Thank you

Christoph




On 15.04.2016 10:53, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> looks like this is my favourite subject these days, the "travel grants".
> 
> Now we have 10k $ and want to ask the community for personal donations
> via FOSSGIS paypal account (as dicsussed on IRC yesterday). Now we need
> clever ideas, how to proceed with this.
> I just had a phonecall and discussion with Torsten about this topic and
> like to share  my ideas with you and also request for your opinion on this.
> 
> 
> 1. Who gets a grant?
> My idea that I also discussed with the board is based on a "point system"
> 
> Country points:
> I like the idea to follow world banks country rating. They assigned all
> countreies due to average income into 4 groups. So, looking to the last
> (in sense of "most poor" group), people applying from there become 3
> points, from the second poorest group 2 and from the next classified
> group 1 point. I would also cut here and not accept any applying people
> from other countries.
> 
> Male/Female
> In order to prosper a diverse community, in general applying women get
> +1 point.
> 
> Students
> If a student applies, he/she gets another +1 point
> 
> Proposal/Talk
> Board initially wanted that only spekaers become a grant, but for this
> we are too late, so I convinced them, not to make this to the onliest
> criteria, but i agreed to take that into account. So I would rate a
> handed in proposal with 1 point and an accepted talk with 3 points, so
> that we ensure, that people that handed in a talk become in favour of
> our granting programme if they have an accepted talk and apply for the
> granting program.
> 
> This is in my eyes a transparent procedure and everybody could rate
> him/herself and see, whether he/she gets a chance for granting.
> 
> 
> 2. What do we grant?
> That's really not easy. 2014 and 2015 only granted attendance fee and
> accommodation and I think that's the way we should proceed as well,
> because it is really tricky to pay for someones travel. When do we get
> receipts? What if we pay for a flight and the granted person becomes ill
> or does not get a visa? Pay money in advance and people disappear? ->
> two words: very difficult.
> 
> So my favourite is to grant accommodation and conference pass.
> 
> But - what do we do with the applying student,s that also take part on
> the studentship programme? If they get a free ticket, there is no need
> for them to work for us. Solution: As a non-profit organisation we can
> pay a volunteering lump-sum, it's somewhere between5 and 700€ per year.
> So we could pay this for granted students, that also take part on the
> studentship programme and they can use it for paying their travel. they
> get the money cash after the conference.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please share your ideas!
> 
> Till
> 
> 
> 
> 
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