FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeff McKenna <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [Board] Application for a sponsorship by OSGeo to 4th GRASS Community Sprint To: [email protected]
Thanks Margherita, I've added this to the agenda of next week's Board meeting (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-06-13) -jeff On 2013-06-06 10:21 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote: > Dear Board, > > I would like to apply for a sponsorship by OSGeo for the upcoming 4th > GRASS Community Sprint [1]. Following the guidelines [2], I provide the > following information: > > > *Basic Information* > > * Audience: how many people are expected? ~20 people > * Region: is the sprint localized to a specific region? It's a global > event > * Projects: is the sprint to work on just one specific project, or is > it for multiple projects? Developers and contributors are committed > to be working for improving the GRASS GIS project and the interfaces > to QGIS, GDAL, PostGIS, R statistics, Sextante, gvSIG, OGC Services > (esp. WPS) and more. > * Length: how many days will the sprint cover? 7 (12-18 July 2013) > * Venue: where will the sprint be held? will food be provided? will > overnight lodging be provided? The sprint is following the > Geoinformatics conference, 11-12 July 2013, Czech Technical > University in Prague, Czech Republic. With the sponsors' donations > we will try to cover some expenses for meals and accommodation. > > *Expected Expenses* > > * what is the expected cost per attendee, for travel, lodging, and > food? Travel costs really depend on the travel distance, we expect > participants mainly from Europe. For accommodation and costs, please > refer to [3]. For general info about common items and food prices, > please see [4] > * what is the expected cost for the venue (such as conference room, > wifi support, snacks, etc)? In average the overall cost of GRASS > community sprints has been kept very low, the venue is kindly > offered by the Czech Technical University of Prague. Snacks and > drinks are to be provided by sponsorship. > > *Expected Revenues* > > * what is the expected registration fee, if any, for each attendee? No > registration fees > * what is the expected amount of third-party sponsorships? The > previous GRASS community sprint gathered 780 eur from third parties > sponsorship, as documented in [5] > * what in-kind donations are expected (such as donated use of a > conference room)? Conference room. > * what is the desired amount of OSGeo sponsorship? 750 USD > > *Profit / Loss / Risk* > > * What is the expected profit of the event, if any? where will any > surplus money go? There is no expected profit. We don't expect any > surplus, but if any, it will be kept for a future GRASS community > sprint. > * Under what circumstances might the event incur a loss? how will this > risk be mitigated? In the case that sponsors' donations would be > low, the remaining costs will be covered by the participants. > > Thank you and best regards. > > > [1] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2013 > [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines > [3] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2013#Accommodation_and_Costs > [4] > http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2013#Weather_and_Common_Item_Prices > [5] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013#Thanks_to_our_sponsors > > -- _______________________________________________ Board mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board -- Best regards, Margherita DI LEO Postdoctoral Researcher European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 [email protected] Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
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