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

Wed Jul 26 13:43:58 PDT 2017

+1 Gerald or/and Jeff. Best!
Maria

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From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
Date: 26/07/2017 15:30 (GMT+01:00)
To: zoo-psc at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [ZOO-PSC] Requesting funds to go the FOSS4G 2017

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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