Motion: The GDAL PSC authorizes funding up to US$525 to pay entrance fees to the Islandwood Code Sprint for Brian Case.
----- Brian (aka winkey) has done lots of work in recent years on and with GDAL/OGR. Most notably he has developed the libkml based OGR KML driver. Brian lives relatively near the Islandwood sprint and would arrange to get himself there and other ancillary costs. We would just be paying the entrace fees (which also implicitly covers housing and food). Information on the Islandwood Sprint (successor to the Toronto, NYC and Montreal sprints of recent years) is available at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IslandWood_Code_Sprint_2012 I'm afraid I haven't done a detailed financial review of GDAL/OGR project funds but I think we have in excess of $10K in reserve so this is a modest expenditure, and I think can serve the community building goals of the project well. I think we should also be open to similar support for other substantial contributors to GDAL/OGR who don't have corporate travel support, who would like to attend the sprint, and who would be able to get themselves there. However, that is not explicitly covered by this motion. -- I'll start with +1 Frank. PS. I'd love to make a new batch of GDAL project tshirts in the coming year if someone is up to organizing. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [email protected] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/warmerda and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
