[gdal-dev] Motion: Approve use of sponsorship program for OSGeo code sprint travel expenses

[Daniel Baston]

Hi Andrew,

The primary motivation for attending the sprint is to work side-by-side
with other GDAL developers and community members. From this perspective, I
would argue that paying for every maintainer and PSC member to attend the
same event would be money well spent. This is quite unlikely to occur but
if it did, the total cap would be 18 000€ with the current composition of
the PSC and maintainers.

If all maintainers / members that have publicly or privately expressed
interest attend, the total cap would be 8500€. I expect most attendees will
be able to travel for less than the proposed caps.

Dan




On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM Andrew C Aitchison <andrew at aitchison.me.uk>
wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Aug 2025, Daniel Baston via gdal-dev wrote:
>
> > Hello PSC,
> >
> > Several GDAL maintainers and PSC members have expressed interest in
> > attending the OSGeo Community Sprint to be held next month in Riga,
> Latvia
> > [1]. I would like to motion for the GDAL Sponsorship program to reimburse
> > travel expenses up to 1000€ for Europeans and 1500€ for non-Europeans
> > attending the sprint.
>
> > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2025
>
> Might I suggest that the PSC agrees a limit on the number
> of people going, and/or that some member approves applications
> before-hand ?
>
> I doubt that it would be appropriate to pay for every
> maintainer and member to go to the same event !
>
> --
> Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
>                     andrew at aitchison.me.uk
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