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

[Jeff McKenna]

On second thought, my email just adds confusion to this.  Please 
disregard it.

I am +1 for Gérald going to Boston.

Have a nice week everyone,

-jeff



On 2017-07-26 10:14 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Dear Gérald and ZOO-PSC members,
> 
> I have been quiet on this issue, because I agree with the points made by 
> Markus, Daniel and others; and, I'm very disheartened by the high costs 
> of FOSS4G Boston.
> 
> Yesterday I received a direct message from the Boston co-chair, Michael 
> Terner.  He said that the local committee noticed my big smile at 
> FOSS4G-Paris, and they would like to offer a complementary "full pass" 
> for the registration to me.  They would also like me to be there to 
> present this year's Sol Katz award.
> 
> That is a kind offer.   And one that made me really think, of somehow 
> attending (very similar to Gérald's situation).  A full registration is 
> a thousand Canadian dollars, yikes.  Unfortunately the Canadian dollar 
> is very low compared to the USD.
> 
> Part of my thinking on this, is also the fact that I'll be working on 
> the ZOO-Project these coming weeks, before Boston, to add ZOO into the 
> base MS4W installer.
> 
> And on my mind also is how useful it was for me to be at the ZOO-Project 
> workshop in Paris, where I spoke for about an hour on MapServer and ZOO 
> to the workshop attendees.
> 
> Therefore I've been looking and looking for a cheap flight since I 
> received Michael's invite yesterday.  The best I can do is to arrive 
> Monday evening, in time for the ZOO-Project workshop (Tuesday 
> afternoon), and hope to sleep on someone's hotel room floor for the 
> week, and attend the code sprint on Saturday.  The flight cost would be 
> 470 USD. I would not be buying rounds of beer there of course, and 
> cutting costs wherever I can.
> 
> So I am proposing to join in on Gérald's use of the code sprint funding, 
> only to cover the cost of my flight (I can sleep on Gérald's hotel room 
> floor likely, to cut costs).
> 
> I do worry that the OSGeo Board might not approve the use of this 
> funding for the one-day FOSS4G-Boston sprint, for the ZOO team (which I 
> think both Markus and Daniel said as well); but on the other hand, it 
> can't hurt to try.
> 
> What do others think of this idea?
> 
> This is definitely confusing.  Especially as I realize that the 2k might 
> just be enough for to cover Gérald's flight and hotel costs.
> 
> But I do want to stress that I strongly feel that Gérald should be at 
> FOSS4G Boston.  He deserves this after so much work for FOSS4G-Paris.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2017-07-10 10:31 AM, 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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