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

[Margherita Di Leo]

I don't know exactly how this worked so far, but I have the feeling that
this makes sense if the conference is a FOSS4G and the organizers sit in
the Conference committee. In this case I think it makes more sense that the
conveners evaluate students' abstracts and decide what is the best work
that is worth to sponsor. So my proposal would be to keep the 2 things
separate. On one hand, the GSoC travel grant to be assigned on request by
the FOSDEM conveners. On the other hand, if OSGeo decides to sponsor the
geospatial devroom at FOSDEM granting additional travel aid to whom ever
the conference committee pleases, we (organizers) are only very grateful
for that and will mention OSGeo as a sponsor.

What do you think?
Thanks

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 :)
>
> --
> 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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Margherita Di Leo
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