[ZOO-PSC] Requesting funds to go the FOSS4G 2017

Tue Jul 11 08:43:55 PDT 2017

Hi everyone,

My opinion on this is inline with Maxi's, so my vote is also 0.
Actually I first misunderstood and thought the budget would be requested
from the ZOO project fund.
I think it would be fair for example to ask to receive the money for the
GSoC mentorship in the past years.
But anyway, asking is fine, because it will start an open discussion. Maybe
it's a good idea to provide a lmited assistance to incubated projects.

I agree, that FOSS4G Boston is an expensive event, if you're not lucky to
be a local, because especially accomodation expenses are high.
It's one of the reason, why I decided not to travel to Boston this year.
Instead I asked Steve Woodbridge to give the pgRouting workshop.
If I would be an OSGeo board member, I would be worried to set a precedent.
Other projects would also request to cover travel budgets in upcoming
conferences, and as a board member I would question, if there isn't a
chance to involve a local community instead.

Daniel

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:

> Hi Gerald,
> my vote is 0
> since, I fully agree that the costs are way too much and one could think
> if these money could have a better investment... Maybe in another
> conference where further expand the range of users?
>
> Maxi
>
> Il 10 lug 2017 5:16 PM, "nicolas bozon" <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
>> Hi Gérald,
>>
>> +1 for you to request the 2000$US from the OSGeo Board and to use it at
>> Boston.
>>
>> I do also agree with you that both giving and attending ZOO Workshop and
>> Presentation at FOSS4G cost more and more unfortunatelly.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2017-07-10 16:56 GMT+02:00 Venkatesh Raghavan <
>> raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>:
>>
>>> Gerald,
>>>
>>> Thanks for all your efforts to showcase ZOO and Mapmint at
>>> FOSS4G-2017 Boston.
>>>
>>> The approved budget for 2017 [1] includes 17,500 for PSC
>>> (Codesprints, Developer meetings) and ZOO-project has requested
>>> for 2000USD (not Euro).
>>>
>>> I am +1 for using this amount for supporting organizing of
>>> Z00 and MapMint workshop at FOSS4G-Boton and
>>> participating in the Code Sprint.
>>>
>>> I think you should send a request to the board for releasing
>>> this funds after getting approval prom ZOO-PSC.
>>>
>>> Hope you have a very fruitful time at FOSS4G-2017, Boston.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Venka
>>>
>>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2017
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/10/2017 10:31 PM, Fenoy Gerald wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear ZOO-PSC members,
>>>> I do apologize to come back to you so late about this specific query
>>>> but at this point there is no other way around, so I have to send you this
>>>> email.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to request for funds for being able to attend the FOSS4G
>>>> 2017 in Boston. Indeed, as you have probably noticed we have been accepted
>>>> for both the ZOO-Project and the MapMint workshop.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to this acceptance, we got free tickets to attend the
>>>> conference. Then for the MapMint workshop we asked for refund after the
>>>> conference, this should make 750 $US when this money is send.
>>>>
>>>> Still, this does not even cover the fees I have advanced already for
>>>> the flight tickets …. (bought in january this year for having cheap price).
>>>>
>>>> I have also booked a hotel, but for the first time in my life when
>>>> preparing my journey to the global FOSS4G I have selected a hotel that I
>>>> can cancel few days before the conference. Only the hotel for the minimum
>>>> number of nights is around 1200€ which sounds not very reasonable for
>>>> someone like me that is only willing to promote the software.
>>>>
>>>> Obviously there will be a Code Sprint there, and we have filled the
>>>> fund request to OSGeo at the end of the last year (if I recall correctly
>>>> the dates) for attending code sprint.
>>>>
>>>> So I would like to request for the full amount of money that we have
>>>> asked to the OSGeo, so 2000€, for attending the global FOSS4G this year.
>>>>
>>>> I hope to hear from you and we can accept my proposal, in other case I
>>>> will have to inform the FOSS4G LOC that both MapMint and ZOO-Project
>>>> workshops and the ZOO-Project presentation will be canceled. Looking at the
>>>> price for attending the conference, I still wonder if our place is there or
>>>> not as selecting attendees on the money they are able to expense during the
>>>> summer period is probably far from our initial vision … ( when I say « our
>>>> place » I mean a place for any free software).
>>>>
>>>> I hope to hear your thoughts on this matter.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gérald Fenoy
>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay
>>>>
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