[Oceania-Board] Travel Grant Funding Request for 2025 Global Conference

[Emma Hain]

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
>
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