Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

[Mark Iliffe]

Hi Jody,

Thanks for the background too - I think there needs to be more coordination
between the various OSGeo projects - especially considering the enhanced
touch that we've been working on regarding accommodation - I think this can
be something for future conferences to consider, especially if following
our model of engagement (linking accommodation, experiences together etc).

With submitting a workshop - I doubt there is an easy answer here - hence
the verbose email! At the start, we never promised a free ticket to
workshop presenters... but if there is an issue for workshop presenters,
I'd really like to stress that we'll make this right. Our mission and motto
with this FOSS4G is *"to leave no-one behind"* and we will deliver on this
mission, and that includes those that are presenting, giving workshops etc.

We've focused on the Travel Grant Programme this year as a mechanism for
increasing attendance at FOSS4G, part of this has been to extend free at
the point of provision accommodation for TGP attendees - given the right
circumstances this can include accommodation at FOSS4G - it will not be the
Ritz, but it would suffice. Part of our sponsorship raising has been to
directly support further attendance at FOSS4G through targeting underserved
communities, part of this criteria has been to focus on presenters through
this programme too. To support attendees, we need them to flag that they
need assistance!

I'd like to really pose the question to the community, regarding the
content of future workshops. In scanning our workshop content, we are
supporting some workshop presenters through the TGP, whereas most are being
supported by their companies - balancing this is going to be a question for
others - we've made our bed to an effect, and I hope that the community
at-large can work with us to mitigate any challenge that could/would arise.

Thanks all,

Mark



On 19 June 2018 at 20:02, Jody Garnett  wrote:

> Thanks for the background Mark.
>
> Keep in mind that that OSGeo projects and committees also have a budget,
> many indicated that they would assist their members with foss4g travel
> and/or accommodation. For context OSGeo does ask that each project officer
> attend the AGM (or send a community member to speak on their behalf).
>
> I am one of the individuals who submitted a workshop in the hopes of
> earning a conference ticket. I have enough notice that I will be able to
> sort out the gap. I would like to acknowledge that earlier in my career
> finding a way to earn a foss4g conference ticket was a way for me to attend
> foss4g events (run a workshop, save up half the year, sofa surf based on a
> generosity, etc...). For the FOSS4G 2013 event you mentioned I joined the
> video team.  I recognize that this was a case was I was giving up my time,
> since I had more time then money.
>
> Personally it takes me five days to prep a 1/2 day workshop. One reason I
> would like to continue to support instructors is so they take that prep
> time, but perhaps we could find a balance where financial support is more
> directly tied to preparation. Do something like hire an designer to help
> with diagrams if initial course milestone is met etc...
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 at 12:31, Mark Iliffe  wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam
>> this August… it’s going to be amazing!!
>>
>> Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on
>> Twitter about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that
>> span from here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop
>> presenters and keynotes and against.
>>
>> I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to
>> workshop presenters.
>>
>> When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed
>> by the quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We
>> received 73 submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as
>> we wanted to widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka…
>> not have the same as last year) and balance new presenters with established
>> ones. Everything was a compromise to establish this program, but on balance
>> I believe (and I hope you as the community will agree), that we got the
>> balance right.
>>
>> We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use
>> FOSS4G in Dar es Salaam to widen participation of many under-represented
>> groups within our community - as a global community, we need to be as
>> diverse as the world. Part of the economic impetus within the DLOC is to
>> widen access and participation - this means working out how to achieve
>> that. Bluntly, if we want to have a conference with the same content and
>> people, we shouldn’t be holding this in Dar es Salaam.
>>
>> As many, (but not all), workshop presenters are from companies sponsoring
>> their travel to FOSS4G (offering workshops that directly relate to 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks for the background Mark.

Keep in mind that that OSGeo projects and committees also have a budget,
many indicated that they would assist their members with foss4g travel
and/or accommodation. For context OSGeo does ask that each project officer
attend the AGM (or send a community member to speak on their behalf).

I am one of the individuals who submitted a workshop in the hopes of
earning a conference ticket. I have enough notice that I will be able to
sort out the gap. I would like to acknowledge that earlier in my career
finding a way to earn a foss4g conference ticket was a way for me to attend
foss4g events (run a workshop, save up half the year, sofa surf based on a
generosity, etc...). For the FOSS4G 2013 event you mentioned I joined the
video team.  I recognize that this was a case was I was giving up my time,
since I had more time then money.

Personally it takes me five days to prep a 1/2 day workshop. One reason I
would like to continue to support instructors is so they take that prep
time, but perhaps we could find a balance where financial support is more
directly tied to preparation. Do something like hire an designer to help
with diagrams if initial course milestone is met etc...
--
Jody Garnett


On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 at 12:31, Mark Iliffe  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam this
> August… it’s going to be amazing!!
>
> Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on
> Twitter about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that
> span from here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop
> presenters and keynotes and against.
>
> I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to
> workshop presenters.
>
> When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed by
> the quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We received
> 73 submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as we wanted
> to widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka… not have
> the same as last year) and balance new presenters with established ones.
> Everything was a compromise to establish this program, but on balance I
> believe (and I hope you as the community will agree), that we got the
> balance right.
>
> We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use
> FOSS4G in Dar es Salaam to widen participation of many under-represented
> groups within our community - as a global community, we need to be as
> diverse as the world. Part of the economic impetus within the DLOC is to
> widen access and participation - this means working out how to achieve
> that. Bluntly, if we want to have a conference with the same content and
> people, we shouldn’t be holding this in Dar es Salaam.
>
> As many, (but not all), workshop presenters are from companies sponsoring
> their travel to FOSS4G (offering workshops that directly relate to services
> offered by their employer), the drive to widen participation, with previous
> conferences not offering free workshop tickets (Nottingham in 2013 for
> example) and no stated promise to offer free tickets for presenters, I led
> my committee and we resolved to not provide free tickets to presenters.
>
> However, potentially this is wrong - and I’d like to stress as a
> volunteer(and unpaid!) conference chair/organiser, we’re capable of getting
> things wrong… but we/I want to ensure that it’s put right.
>
> In effect, there is no profit from the workshop tickets, effectively, this
> pays for the conference venue and the food and drink for the workshop days.
> The cost of this is roughly $75. We’re charging $75 - this is cheaper than
> previous workshops! To offer a free ticket to workshop presenters, we would
> have charged $100 and reclaimed the cost of the workshop presenter ticket
> from there. We charged as low as we could, because we recognised that for
> some attending FOSS4G, $25 can be a very large difference… but for
> others... not at all (hence the donation button for the Travel Grant
> Programme!). But, to widen participation, we need to be as inclusive as
> possible and that means making hard choices.
>
> We’re being inclusive by raising the number of TGP attendees from 10 in
> Boston to 51 for Dar. As the DLOC, we’ve booked the YMCA for our TGP
> attendees - this means that the TGP this year can support micro-grants,
> paying $250 to support the bus travel, food, and drink of a community
> member in Uganda that ordinarily would not be able to get to the conference
> in theory on their doorstep - because of this, every little helps, saving
> $100 here, $300 there etc. This may sound like hyperbole, but it’s a direct
> and concrete way that FOSS4G is widening access, in both economically
> disadvantaged and gendered situations.
>
> Ultimately: If you are a workshop presenter at FOSS4G this year and are
> unable to get your ticket/want a free ticket, please get in touch 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to retire membership status?

[Massimiliano Cannata]

Dear Sara,
I'm sorry for your decision and would like to ask you to reconsider it.
Often voice of few people is not necessarily the expression of the
community.
Nevertheless I fully respect you final decision.

Regards
Maxi

Il mar 19 giu 2018, 19:03 Sara  ha scritto:

> Hello community,
>
> Can someone point me at the relevant documentation re: retiring current
> membership status? Specifically, related to Charter membership.
>
> I understand the processes to nominate & add new charter members but not
> clear on how current charter members can retire.
>
> To put it another way: how to edit
> https://www.osgeo.org/about/charter-members/?
>
> Thanks,
> Sara Safavi
> ___
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[OSGeo-Discuss] How to retire membership status?

[Sara]

Hello community,

Can someone point me at the relevant documentation re: retiring current
membership status? Specifically, related to Charter membership.

I understand the processes to nominate & add new charter members but not
clear on how current charter members can retire.

To put it another way: how to edit https://www.osgeo.org/
about/charter-members/?

Thanks,
Sara Safavi
___
Discuss mailing list
Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

[Serena Coetzee]

Perfect.


Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)

University of Pretoria
Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South
Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82
464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <
maria.brove...@polimi.it> wrote:

> Yes, I think this is a good alternative giving also more visibility to
> GeoForAll.
> Maria
>
>
>
> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
>
>
>  Messaggio originale 
> Da: Mark Iliffe 
> Data: 19/06/18 18:39 (GMT+01:00)
> A: Maria Antonia Brovelli 
> Cc: Serena Coetzee , Suchith Anand <
> suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>, ML osgeo discuss ,
> Rebecca Firth 
> Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>
> Hi All,
>
> There will be an awards evening for Travel Grand Programme Awardees on the
> Thursday as sundowner cocktails. Potentially could be an awards event
> whereas the Friday meeting could be a substantive discussion?
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 19 Jun 2018, at 12:16, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
> wrote:
>
> Dear Mark
>
> I agree. It is a good opportunity to show practically what GeoForAll is
> doing.
>
> Best
>
> Maria
>
>
>
> **
> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
> Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
> Politecnico di Milano
>
> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy
> 
> )
>
> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,   
> maria.brove...@polimi.it
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> *Da:* Serena Coetzee 
> *Inviato:* martedì 19 giugno 2018 18:07:17
> *A:* Mark Iliffe
> *Cc:* Suchith Anand; ML osgeo discuss; Maria Antonia Brovelli
> *Oggetto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>
> Dear Mark and all,
>
> as you know, there will be a GeoForAll meeting on Friday morning. We could
> use the meeting to present the prizes to the students? What do you think?
>
> Regards,
> Serena
>
>
> Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
>
> University of Pretoria
> Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
> Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
> Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South
> Africa
> email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82
> 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Mark Iliffe 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Suchith,
>
> Yes - this is awesome. We're happy to provide a platform for Geo4All
> obviously, please contact me off-list for me to intro the right people in
> the DLOC!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> On 18 June 2018 at 05:30, Suchith Anand 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark and DLOC Team,
>
>
> Great work you all are doing for FOSS4G 2018 . May I also bring to your
> attention , that we have a small budget in GeoForAll  for acknowledging
> student contributions through Student awards at key events  . Distributed
> as follows
> First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD
>
> The only requirement that we have is that  LOC will need to plan and
> administer the student competition  and give them at the event with a short
> blogpost to the community after the event.
>
> We are hoping the Dar es Salaam Team will take up this opportunity. We
> look forward to successful FOSS4G 2018.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> --
> *From:* Conference_dev  on behalf
> of Mark Iliffe 
> *Sent:* 17 June 2018 20:31
> *To:* ML osgeo discuss; Conference Dev
> *Subject:* [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>
> Hi All,
>
> Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam this
> August… it’s going to be amazing!!
>
> Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on
> Twitter about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that
> span from here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop
> presenters and keynotes and against.
>
> I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to
> workshop presenters.
>
> When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed by
> the quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We received
> 73 submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as we wanted
> to widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka… not have
> the same as last year) and balance new presenters with established ones.
> Everything was a compromise to establish this program, but on balance I
> believe (and I hope you as the community will agree), that we got the
> balance right.
>
> We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use
> FOSS4G in Dar es Salaam to widen participation of 

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Yes, I think this is a good alternative giving also more visibility to 
GeoForAll.
Maria



Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung


 Messaggio originale 
Da: Mark Iliffe 
Data: 19/06/18 18:39 (GMT+01:00)
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli 
Cc: Serena Coetzee , Suchith Anand 
, ML osgeo discuss , 
Rebecca Firth 
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Hi All,

There will be an awards evening for Travel Grand Programme Awardees on the 
Thursday as sundowner cocktails. Potentially could be an awards event whereas 
the Friday meeting could be a substantive discussion?

Best,

Mark

Sent from my iPhone

On 19 Jun 2018, at 12:16, Maria Antonia Brovelli 
mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:


Dear Mark

I agree. It is a good opportunity to show practically what GeoForAll is doing.

Best

Maria



Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,   
maria.brove...@polimi.it






Da: Serena Coetzee mailto:serenacoet...@gmail.com>>
Inviato: martedì 19 giugno 2018 18:07:17
A: Mark Iliffe
Cc: Suchith Anand; ML osgeo discuss; Maria Antonia Brovelli
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Dear Mark and all,

as you know, there will be a GeoForAll meeting on Friday morning. We could use 
the meeting to present the prizes to the students? What do you think?

Regards,
Serena


Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)

University of Pretoria
Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: 
www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: 
+27 12 420 3823

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Mark Iliffe 
mailto:markili...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Suchith,

Yes - this is awesome. We're happy to provide a platform for Geo4All obviously, 
please contact me off-list for me to intro the right people in the DLOC!

Cheers,

Mark

On 18 June 2018 at 05:30, Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi Mark and DLOC Team,


Great work you all are doing for FOSS4G 2018 . May I also bring to your 
attention , that we have a small budget in GeoForAll  for acknowledging student 
contributions through Student awards at key events  . Distributed as follows
First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD

The only requirement that we have is that  LOC will need to plan and administer 
the student competition  and give them at the event with a short blogpost to 
the community after the event.

We are hoping the Dar es Salaam Team will take up this opportunity. We look 
forward to successful FOSS4G 2018.

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: Conference_dev 
mailto:conference_dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>>
 on behalf of Mark Iliffe mailto:markili...@gmail.com>>
Sent: 17 June 2018 20:31
To: ML osgeo discuss; Conference Dev
Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Hi All,

Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam this 
August… it’s going to be amazing!!

Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on Twitter 
about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that span from 
here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop presenters and 
keynotes and against.

I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to 
workshop presenters.

When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed by the 
quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We received 73 
submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as we wanted to 
widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka… not have the same 
as last year) and balance new presenters with established ones. Everything was 
a compromise to establish this program, but on balance I believe (and I hope 
you as the community will agree), that we got the balance right.

We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use FOSS4G in 
Dar es Salaam to widen participation of many under-represented groups within 
our community - as a global community, we need to be as diverse as the world. 
Part of the economic impetus within the DLOC is to widen access and 
participation - this means working out how to achieve that. Bluntly, if we want 
to have a conference with the same content and people, we shouldn’t be holding 
this in Dar es Salaam.

As many, (but not all), workshop presenters are from companies sponsoring their 
travel to FOSS4G (offering workshops that directly relate 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

[Mark Iliffe]

Hi All,

There will be an awards evening for Travel Grand Programme Awardees on the 
Thursday as sundowner cocktails. Potentially could be an awards event whereas 
the Friday meeting could be a substantive discussion?

Best,

Mark

Sent from my iPhone

> On 19 Jun 2018, at 12:16, Maria Antonia Brovelli  
> wrote:
> 
> Dear Mark
> I agree. It is a good opportunity to show practically what GeoForAll is doing.
> Best
> Maria
> 
> 
> 
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
> Politecnico di Milano
> 
> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  maria.brove...@polimi.it
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Da: Serena Coetzee 
> Inviato: martedì 19 giugno 2018 18:07:17
> A: Mark Iliffe
> Cc: Suchith Anand; ML osgeo discuss; Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>  
> Dear Mark and all, 
> 
> as you know, there will be a GeoForAll meeting on Friday morning. We could 
> use the meeting to present the prizes to the students? What do you think?
> 
> Regards,
> Serena
> 
> 
> Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
> 
> University of Pretoria
> Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
> Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
> Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South 
> Africa
> email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82 464 
> 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823
> 
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Mark Iliffe  wrote:
> Hi Suchith,
> 
> Yes - this is awesome. We're happy to provide a platform for Geo4All 
> obviously, please contact me off-list for me to intro the right people in the 
> DLOC!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 18 June 2018 at 05:30, Suchith Anand  
> wrote:
> Hi Mark and DLOC Team,
> 
> Great work you all are doing for FOSS4G 2018 . May I also bring to your 
> attention , that we have a small budget in GeoForAll  for acknowledging 
> student contributions through Student awards at key events  . Distributed as 
> follows
> First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD
> 
> The only requirement that we have is that  LOC will need to plan and 
> administer the student competition  and give them at the event with a short 
> blogpost to the community after the event.
> 
> We are hoping the Dar es Salaam Team will take up this opportunity. We look 
> forward to successful FOSS4G 2018.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Suchith
> 
> From: Conference_dev  on behalf of 
> Mark Iliffe 
> Sent: 17 June 2018 20:31
> To: ML osgeo discuss; Conference Dev
> Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>  
> Hi All,
> 
> Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam this 
> August… it’s going to be amazing!!
> 
> Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on 
> Twitter about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that 
> span from here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop 
> presenters and keynotes and against. 
> 
> I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to 
> workshop presenters.
> 
> When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed by 
> the quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We received 73 
> submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as we wanted to 
> widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka… not have the 
> same as last year) and balance new presenters with established ones. 
> Everything was a compromise to establish this program, but on balance I 
> believe (and I hope you as the community will agree), that we got the balance 
> right. 
> 
> We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use FOSS4G 
> in Dar es Salaam to widen participation of many under-represented groups 
> within our community - as a global community, we need to be as diverse as the 
> world. Part of the economic impetus within the DLOC is to widen access and 
> participation - this means working out how to achieve that. Bluntly, if we 
> want to have a conference with the same content and people, we shouldn’t be 
> holding this in Dar es Salaam.
> 
> As many, (but not all), workshop presenters are from companies sponsoring 
> their travel to FOSS4G (offering workshops that directly relate to services 
> offered by their employer), the drive to widen participation, with previous 
> conferences not offering free workshop tickets (Nottingham in 2013 for 
> example) and no stated promise to offer free tickets for presenters, I led my 
> committee and we resolved to not provide free tickets to presenters. 
> 
> However, potentially this is wrong - and I’d like to stress as a 
> volunteer(and unpaid!) conference chair/organiser, we’re capable of getting 
> things wrong… but we/I want to ensure that it’s put right.
> 
> In effect, there is no 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear Mark

I agree. It is a good opportunity to show practically what GeoForAll is doing.

Best

Maria



Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,   
maria.brove...@polimi.it






Da: Serena Coetzee 
Inviato: martedì 19 giugno 2018 18:07:17
A: Mark Iliffe
Cc: Suchith Anand; ML osgeo discuss; Maria Antonia Brovelli
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Dear Mark and all,

as you know, there will be a GeoForAll meeting on Friday morning. We could use 
the meeting to present the prizes to the students? What do you think?

Regards,
Serena


Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)

University of Pretoria
Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: 
www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: 
+27 12 420 3823

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Mark Iliffe 
mailto:markili...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Suchith,

Yes - this is awesome. We're happy to provide a platform for Geo4All obviously, 
please contact me off-list for me to intro the right people in the DLOC!

Cheers,

Mark

On 18 June 2018 at 05:30, Suchith Anand 
mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi Mark and DLOC Team,


Great work you all are doing for FOSS4G 2018 . May I also bring to your 
attention , that we have a small budget in GeoForAll  for acknowledging student 
contributions through Student awards at key events  . Distributed as follows
First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD

The only requirement that we have is that  LOC will need to plan and administer 
the student competition  and give them at the event with a short blogpost to 
the community after the event.

We are hoping the Dar es Salaam Team will take up this opportunity. We look 
forward to successful FOSS4G 2018.

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: Conference_dev 
mailto:conference_dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org>>
 on behalf of Mark Iliffe mailto:markili...@gmail.com>>
Sent: 17 June 2018 20:31
To: ML osgeo discuss; Conference Dev
Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Hi All,

Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam this 
August… it’s going to be amazing!!

Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on Twitter 
about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that span from 
here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop presenters and 
keynotes and against.

I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to 
workshop presenters.

When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed by the 
quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We received 73 
submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as we wanted to 
widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka… not have the same 
as last year) and balance new presenters with established ones. Everything was 
a compromise to establish this program, but on balance I believe (and I hope 
you as the community will agree), that we got the balance right.

We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use FOSS4G in 
Dar es Salaam to widen participation of many under-represented groups within 
our community - as a global community, we need to be as diverse as the world. 
Part of the economic impetus within the DLOC is to widen access and 
participation - this means working out how to achieve that. Bluntly, if we want 
to have a conference with the same content and people, we shouldn’t be holding 
this in Dar es Salaam.

As many, (but not all), workshop presenters are from companies sponsoring their 
travel to FOSS4G (offering workshops that directly relate to services offered 
by their employer), the drive to widen participation, with previous conferences 
not offering free workshop tickets (Nottingham in 2013 for example) and no 
stated promise to offer free tickets for presenters, I led my committee and we 
resolved to not provide free tickets to presenters.

However, potentially this is wrong - and I’d like to stress as a volunteer(and 
unpaid!) conference chair/organiser, we’re capable of getting things wrong… but 
we/I want to ensure that it’s put right.

In effect, there is no profit from the workshop tickets, effectively, this pays 
for the conference venue and the food and drink for the workshop days. The cost 
of this is roughly $75. We’re charging $75 - this is cheaper than previous 
workshops! To offer a free ticket to workshop 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

[Serena Coetzee]

Dear Mark and all,

as you know, there will be a GeoForAll meeting on Friday morning. We could
use the meeting to present the prizes to the students? What do you think?

Regards,
Serena


Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)

University of Pretoria
Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South
Africa
email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82
464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Mark Iliffe  wrote:

> Hi Suchith,
>
> Yes - this is awesome. We're happy to provide a platform for Geo4All
> obviously, please contact me off-list for me to intro the right people in
> the DLOC!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> On 18 June 2018 at 05:30, Suchith Anand 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark and DLOC Team,
>>
>>
>> Great work you all are doing for FOSS4G 2018 . May I also bring to your
>> attention , that we have a small budget in GeoForAll  for acknowledging
>> student contributions through Student awards at key events  .
>> Distributed as follows
>> First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD
>>
>> The only requirement that we have is that  LOC will need to plan and
>> administer the student competition  and give them at the event with a short
>> blogpost to the community after the event.
>>
>> We are hoping the Dar es Salaam Team will take up this opportunity. We
>> look forward to successful FOSS4G 2018.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
>>
>> --
>> *From:* Conference_dev  on
>> behalf of Mark Iliffe 
>> *Sent:* 17 June 2018 20:31
>> *To:* ML osgeo discuss; Conference Dev
>> *Subject:* [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam
>> this August… it’s going to be amazing!!
>>
>> Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on
>> Twitter about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that
>> span from here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop
>> presenters and keynotes and against.
>>
>> I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to
>> workshop presenters.
>>
>> When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed
>> by the quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We
>> received 73 submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as
>> we wanted to widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka…
>> not have the same as last year) and balance new presenters with established
>> ones. Everything was a compromise to establish this program, but on balance
>> I believe (and I hope you as the community will agree), that we got the
>> balance right.
>>
>> We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use
>> FOSS4G in Dar es Salaam to widen participation of many under-represented
>> groups within our community - as a global community, we need to be as
>> diverse as the world. Part of the economic impetus within the DLOC is to
>> widen access and participation - this means working out how to achieve
>> that. Bluntly, if we want to have a conference with the same content and
>> people, we shouldn’t be holding this in Dar es Salaam.
>>
>> As many, (but not all), workshop presenters are from companies sponsoring
>> their travel to FOSS4G (offering workshops that directly relate to services
>> offered by their employer), the drive to widen participation, with previous
>> conferences not offering free workshop tickets (Nottingham in 2013 for
>> example) and no stated promise to offer free tickets for presenters, I led
>> my committee and we resolved to not provide free tickets to presenters.
>>
>> However, potentially this is wrong - and I’d like to stress as a
>> volunteer(and unpaid!) conference chair/organiser, we’re capable of getting
>> things wrong… but we/I want to ensure that it’s put right.
>>
>> In effect, there is no profit from the workshop tickets, effectively,
>> this pays for the conference venue and the food and drink for the workshop
>> days. The cost of this is roughly $75. We’re charging $75 - this is cheaper
>> than previous workshops! To offer a free ticket to workshop presenters, we
>> would have charged $100 and reclaimed the cost of the workshop presenter
>> ticket from there. We charged as low as we could, because we recognised
>> that for some attending FOSS4G, $25 can be a very large difference… but for
>> others... not at all (hence the donation button for the Travel Grant
>> Programme!). But, to widen participation, we need to be as inclusive as
>> possible and that means making hard choices.
>>
>> We’re being inclusive by raising the number of TGP attendees from 10 in
>> Boston to 51 for Dar. As the DLOC, we’ve booked the YMCA for our TGP
>> attendees - this means that the TGP this year can support micro-grants,
>> paying $250 to