[FOSS4G2016] travel granting - your opinion
Christian Mayer
chris at meggsimum.de
Mon Apr 18 09:00:15 PDT 2016
Hi Christoph,
I just went through your draft. Sounds really good! I share some thought
according to your questions inline.
Cheers and thanks,
Chris
> christoph at baudson.de hat am 18. April 2016 um 12:40 geschrieben:
>
>
> Hi, I have prepared a first draft here
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:FOSS4G_2016_Travel_Grants#Website_template
>
> I have several questions and would love to hear some opinions
> - Private donors: Will we have an incentive for them? Raffle or hall of
> fame?
I think it is important to give an incentive if you want to have private
donations. Even a small thing like having an online "Donator-Wall" with the
names will probably encourage more people to donate. A raffle will multiply this
effect, IMHO even if it is just a T-Shirt or something.
> Suggested donation amount of 25€ ok?
> - I proposed a goal of 1000€ for private donations. ok? Can we have a
> progress bar for private donations on the website? Maybe this will help
> us reach the goal.
Means that 40 people have to donate to get the 1000 Euro. Sounds doable. A
progress bar would be a good idea. A non-empty progress bar also encourages more
people to donate. Hopefully we quickly find some donators.
> - Students who apply for both the travel grants and studentship program:
> How much will they earn for volunteering?
> - Points system: are points for origin granted by country of residence
> or nationality?
I'd personally vote for country of residence. Sounds more fair to me.
> - Will we award points for all students, or those under a specific age?
The only thing I could imagine for an age-limitation is that we want to have
more "younger" attendees at FOSS4G. Otherwise I think age should not play a
role, IMHO.
> - How will the application work? Send an email? Web form?
It should be as easy as possible and the applications should be comparable. So a
form would be the better options. Maybe a PDF which can be filled directly could
also be option.
> - Any suggestions for a timeline? I proposed May 1st to 31st, with a
> decision in the first week of June
>
> Thanks for your input :)
>
> Christoph
>
>
> Am 2016-04-17 14:28, schrieb 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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