From alexgleith at gmail.com Thu Dec 12 14:17:07 2024 From: alexgleith at gmail.com (Alex Leith) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:17:07 +1100 Subject: [Oceania-Board] Travel Grant Funding Request for 2025 Global Conference Message-ID: Hi OSGeo Oceania Board As you know, FOSS4G 2025 will be held in Auckland and we're anticipating between 500-700 attendees. We'd like to run a substantial travel grant program, and will allocate a portion of sponsorship funds towards the program. We will be prioritising supporting attendance from the South Pacific, South-East Asia and South America, but will open to anywhere. Previous programs in Oceania have supported around 10 people per event to attend, and the event had around 150 people attending, so a little under 10%. If we can support 40+ people to attend the global event, that would be fantastic. The total cost for this will be something like $25-50 k USD. ($40-80 k AUD.) We'd like to request $15,000 ASD from OSGeo to support this initiative. We have requested a similar amount from OSGeo, and as noted, will top this up as we achieve sponsorship. Thank you for your consideration! Kind regards, Alex and Simon Co-Chairs FOSS4G 2025 -- *Alex Leith* m: +61 419 189 050 https://auspatious.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emmahain at gmail.com Thu Dec 12 15:14:41 2024 From: emmahain at gmail.com (Emma Hain) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:14:41 +1000 Subject: [Oceania-Board] Travel Grant Funding Request for 2025 Global Conference In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: HI All As an addition to this, we should also try to work with our antipodeans including Middle East, European and American counterparts by reaching out to them and encouraging them to sponsor individuals to attend. From comments made during the recent FOSS4G Belem, I think it is super important to bring our regions together and let them at least consider that it is a possiblity they could attend by starting a campaign. Kind regards Em On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 8:17?AM Alex Leith via Oceania-Board < oceania-board at lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hi OSGeo Oceania Board > > As you know, FOSS4G 2025 will be held in Auckland and we're anticipating > between 500-700 attendees. We'd like to run a substantial travel grant > program, and will allocate a portion of sponsorship funds towards the > program. > > We will be prioritising supporting attendance from the South Pacific, > South-East Asia and South America, but will open to anywhere. > Previous programs in Oceania have supported around 10 people per event to > attend, and the event had around 150 people attending, so a little under > 10%. If we can support 40+ people to attend the global event, that would be > fantastic. The total cost for this will be something like $25-50 k USD. > ($40-80 k AUD.) > > We'd like to request $15,000 ASD from OSGeo to support this initiative. We > have requested a similar amount from OSGeo, and as noted, will top this up > as we achieve sponsorship. > > Thank you for your consideration! > > Kind regards, > > Alex and Simon > Co-Chairs FOSS4G 2025 > > -- > *Alex Leith* > m: +61 419 189 050 > https://auspatious.com > _______________________________________________ > Oceania-Board mailing list > Oceania-Board at lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania-board > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: