[Oceania-Board] Grant submission by Geogeeks Perth

[Alex Leith]

Yeah, I saw that.

I think we could adjust the grants policy to allow the committee to approve
grants up to the budgeted amount.

Up to you. It's probably good governance to have the larger grants approved
by the Board still...

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 at 17:05, eli <elipuccioni at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep, looks good to me.
> We might  need to amend the policies, as we reserved to the board the
> right to approve the high budget grants.
> Thanks for the budget’s summary, we’ll keep it in mind for next year!
>
> Il giorno ven 23 giu 2023 alle 18:46 Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
>> Hi Eli
>>
>> I'll raise this budget request with the Board for voting.
>>
>> Regarding high-budget grants, I don't think the Board needs to be
>> involved in deciding who gets what grants. If a worthy applicant asks for
>> two large grants, and the Grant Committee thinks they're both worthwhile,
>> then I think we can be supportive.
>>
>> Just for reference, we have a 22-23
>> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IVQ1ZnNDl25xlMECCNExC_nK4tBWOlVacgAyDTgdlbA/edit>
>> budget that is approved,  and this should probably be considered the
>> ceiling for grants. From when I last updated our budget and actuals, we
>> spent around $3,000 out of a budget of $8,000.
>>
>> This coming FY budget is $8,000 again, so the committee can continue
>> approving grants up to this limit. This should be a guide for the Grant
>> Committee.
>>
>> Does that make sense?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 08:17, eli <elipuccioni at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Board,
>>>
>>> The Grant Committee is pleased to have received the first high budget
>>> grant application from GeoGeeks. They are applying for $3,000 AUD and
>>> intend this
>>> sponsorship to enable their planned events for a year (July 2023 - June
>>> 2024). The information presented in the application draws on their
>>> experience of running successful OSGeo Oceania funded events in 2022 and
>>> 2023.
>>> The full application is attached to this email and saved on the OO Grant
>>> google drive.
>>> We would also ask the board to discuss the recurrence of high budget
>>> grants: can people apply for them more than one time or not? Microgrants
>>> don't have any limit and small budget grants are one per year, but what
>>> about high budget grants?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your attention.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Elisa
>>>
>>> --
>>> Potrebbe andar peggio...potrebbe piovere!
>>>
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>>
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