[OSGeo Oceania] Fwd: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Travel Grant Programme is open for applications from LOCs

[John Bryant]

Hi all,

See below, OSGeo has issued a call for applications for local Travel Grant
Program funding support for 2020. FOSS4G SotM Oceania has been a recipient
of this funding to support our TGP for the last 2 years, and I think we
should ask for support again for this year's event in Fiji. The deadline
for applications is 31 March, so that gives us about *4 weeks* to get
ourselves organised. See last year's application for reference [1].

I think the first step here is to activate a TGP working group. In 2019 the
working group had a couple of changes over the year, but in the end we had
4 of us (me, Greg Lauer, Jonah Sulivan, and David Garcia). The working
group did the work of finding funding, setting criteria, issuing the call
for applications, pulling together a selection panel, making selections,
and working closely with grantees to make sure they have a great
experience. It's quite a bit of work, but hugely gratifying and a very
effective way to knit together our community across a huge region.

So, who can commit to working on this important project over the next 9
months? We should aim to have at least 3 or 4 people who are willing to
oversee this program and put in some time on making sure it's a success.

Cheers
John

[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_CNp_VyP7ic3IoyzWtwFu6i67nHfggWcdm3OGbiT760


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 03:59
Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Travel Grant Programme is open for
applications from LOCs
To: Conference Dev <conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>
Cc: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>


The TGP sub-group of the OSGeo Conference Committee is pleased to invite
applications from organising committees of Global, Regional and National
FOSS4G events for financial support for a TGP for your event.

Details of the application criteria are at
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Travel_Grant_Programme_Cookbook#Applications_to_the_Conference_Committee_for_OSGeo_support

Please briefly answer the 8 questions/criteria listed in the TGP Cookbook
(restrict your response to a maximum of 2 pages of A4) and post your
application on the Conference mailing list by 31st March at the latest.

If you have any questions please post them on the Conference list only,
although we are also posting this announcement to the Discuss list for
information we will not be monitoring Discuss for responses or replying via
that list

We hope to announce the allocation of our TGP budget around the middle of
April.

May the FOSS be with you

Steven
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