[SoC] Motion: use GSoC student mobility grant at FOSDEM geospatial devroom

[Jody Garnett]

travel grant program is under direction of the conference committee, so
they would need to vet student applications for travel assistance.

Up to you if it is worth it :)

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Jody Garnett

On 8 November 2017 at 08:09, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jody,
>
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Quick question, we have a travel grant program for use to help attend
>> events. Could this be considered fundraising for the global travel grant
>> program emarked for students?
>>
>> I just ask because the travel grant program has up to a 10k match from
>> OSGeo, so your $500 would become $1000 :)
>>
>
> This would be cool. What about this:
> - If 2 students request travel grant to present at FOSDEM, OSGeo can
> decide to add another $500 grant for the second student
> - If no student claim travel grant for FOSDEM, those $500 go into OSGeo
> grant program for another event. Only binding condition I would request, is
> the student to be a GSoC student, respecting the credit to Google that pays
> the bill for that at the end of the day.
> I just want to publicly disclose (if wasn't yet evident from the links)
> that I've been a co-organizer of the geospatial devroom at FOSDEM, so I'm
> totally bias towards OSGeo sponsoring it in any possible way
>
> Thanks,
>
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>>>>
>
> --
> Margherita Di Leo
>
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