OSGeo Travel Grant Budget
Here is the budget request to make a travel grant program for 2017.
Michael Smith Wed 17 May 2017 1:41AM
Jody is correct that we haven't spent funds on the Internal Events category. So that's $5k from there. and the we would increase the budget by $5k
Jody Garnett Wed 17 May 2017 5:29AM
Updating the proposal text based on @michaelsmith7 clarifications.
Angelos Tzotsos Wed 17 May 2017 12:54PM
Since our current budget is a bit too high for this year (122k), increasing it by 15k is making me a bit uncomfortable.
I would suggest to do 5k from internal events and 5k increase for 2017 and increase the travel grand program budget to 10k+10k next year.
Venka Wed 17 May 2017 2:42PM
I agree with Angelos. I am not comfortable with any increase in 2017 without knowing surplus expected from out 2016 and 2017 conferences. I also do not agree that travel grant is the only way to encourage diversity in our community.
Jody Garnett · Wed 17 May 2017 1:33AM
Maria / Helena - I am sorry but this program may not make these specific events more affordable for your students. Event affordability is a larger discussion.
I feel anything we did with travel grants would be a band-aid on affordability; they can only ever help a small number of people (as it is being set up for outreach/diversity/community building.)
If the conference committee wants to make events affordable that is an action they can take during the selection process. Such a decision may require a different format. Twitter today is full of suggestions, but it is a much larger discussion then this short term need.