[FOSS4G2016] travel granting - your opinion

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi,

yes, that should be possible, but perhaps its better to put that in the 
confirmation email, because people are also guieded to the accommodation 
page after registering.

I like your thoughts, let's prepare that and decide next thursday in 
IRC.

Thanks for updating the text, that's definitely needed ASAP.

Till


Am 2016-04-17 13:56, schrieb 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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