[OSGeo Oceania] Funding for organisation development

[John Bryant]

Thanks all for support, I'll make a note in the meeting minutes doc
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-HD21IvOFOcdFbgzBsvVK20xKc-PYM5smoDZhAwbOQ/edit>,
pursue the funding, and keep you posted.

Cheers
John

On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 at 02:03, Trisha Moriarty <moriar1y at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 support. Great idea
>
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 1:12 pm, Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 from me. Would be great to have that external advice to help guide us
>> through these decisions.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 10:24 PM John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm eager to kick off a discussion about OSGeo Oceania membership, our
>>> AGM, and the election of directors, so that we're ready to execute these
>>> things by the time FOSS4G SotM Oceania takes place. But in contemplating
>>> how this may play out, I'm seeing a lot of moving parts. It seems possible
>>> we'll need to make amendments to our constitution, and obviously we need to
>>> make sure we're fully compliant with relevant legislation.
>>>
>>> So, before we begin the membership etc discussion, I'd like us to
>>> consider engaging some professional help to make sure we do this right, and
>>> to offer timely guidance along the way. There are organisations that
>>> specialise in assisting not-for-profit organisations through processes like
>>> this, and I'd lean towards engaging one of these.
>>>
>>> I feel like once we begin the discussion, there will be a lot of
>>> questions we need to answer about what we can do, and having professional
>>> advice at the ready may keep us from getting bogged down.
>>>
>>> OSGeo (international) has part of their budget allocated to helping
>>> local chapters get off the ground, and this feels like it would fit the
>>> bill [1]. I'd like to ask them for USD $2k.
>>>
>>> Also, Linux Australia recently launched a grant program [2], this might
>>> also be a good fit. I'd like to ask them for AUD $2500.
>>>
>>> With these two amounts, we'd have ample funds to seek professional
>>> advice in the short term to help fulfill our mandate in the OSGeo Oceania
>>> Terms of Reference [3], as well as have additional funds for specific
>>> accounting advice that we'll likely need as we bed down our accounting
>>> system.
>>>
>>> If one or both of these funding requests are unsuccessful, I would still
>>> see us engaging professional advice, but we may need to be more
>>> conservative with it. I believe we already have agreement that we should
>>> spend money on professional advice where needed, but this funding would
>>> give us latitude to get more help, move faster, get a better result, and
>>> avoid burning out our volunteer base.
>>>
>>> So, the motion: *We direct John Bryant to apply for funding from OSGeo
>>> and Linux Australia for funds to engage professional advice on developing
>>> our membership, AGM, and director election processes, and for additional
>>> accounting advice.*
>>>
>>> Thoughts? What say you? If I get the go ahead with this, I'll put in
>>> applications for funds right away.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2019#OSGeo_Initiatives
>>> [2] https://linux.org.au/grants/
>>> [3]
>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/13aZ6L08ke1-l32I7c00MahyEKgxeZkq8/view
>>>
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