Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

[Wolf Bergenheim]

Ladies and gentlemen of the OSGeo board,

Google has invited OSGeo to attend the Mentor Summit this year. It
takes place the 24th-25th October in Mountainview. We are allowed to
send two mentors and/or admins there. Google offers also to sponsor
airplane tickets up to $2000, but only for what they call mentors with
hands-on experience. In addition to myself Hamish Bowman has expressed
an interest in attending the Mentors Summit on behalf of OSGeo. There
is a risk that Google won't accept Hamsih  as being Hands-on, which
means he would not receive any funding from Google, in which case we
could sponsor his trip or we would say no go for him. Would it be
possible to use part of the GSoC money ($10000) to help cover the rest
of the expenses in order to get both me and Hamish to the Mentor
Summit. I expect the other expenses to be around $2000 all in all.

This matter is a bit urgent, as the plane tickets get more expensive
each day. I would have asked earlier, but it was unsure whether OSGeo
would get an invitation.

Best regards,
Wolf Bergenheim
OSGeo GSoC Administrator
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[Howard Butler]

On Sep 5, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Wolf Bergenheim wrote:
> Would it be
> possible to use part of the GSoC money ($10000) to help cover the rest
> of the expenses in order to get both me and Hamish to the Mentor
> Summit. I expect the other expenses to be around $2000 all in all.

I think this is completely reasonable.  Can someone with budgetary  
discretion power (especially considering the source of the funds)  
approve this, or must we all +1 it via email to ensure it happens?

Howard
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[Frank Warmerdam]

Howard Butler wrote:

>
> On Sep 5, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Wolf Bergenheim wrote:
>> Would it be
>> possible to use part of the GSoC money ($10000) to help cover the rest
>> of the expenses in order to get both me and Hamish to the Mentor
>> Summit. I expect the other expenses to be around $2000 all in all.
>
> I think this is completely reasonable.  Can someone with budgetary
> discretion power (especially considering the source of the funds)
> approve this, or must we all +1 it via email to ensure it happens?

Wolf,

I am supportive of spending on the order of $2000 to assist you and
Hamish to attend the Mentor Summit.

If there is no objection from any board member on this list by
Wednesday morning, consider permission granted by me as Treasurer.

I do feel we need to wait to Wednesday morning (your time) to give
board members a reasonable chance to raise objections.

For next years budget we should include some money in the budget
for the SoC program (shirts, travel).  I'll try to keep this in mind.

Best regards,
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[Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)-2]

Wolf,
no objections from my side. Thanks for making GSoC such a success for
OSGeo!

Best regards,
Arnulf.

Frank Warmerdam schrieb:

> Howard Butler wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 5, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Wolf Bergenheim wrote:
>>> Would it be
>>> possible to use part of the GSoC money ($10000) to help cover the rest
>>> of the expenses in order to get both me and Hamish to the Mentor
>>> Summit. I expect the other expenses to be around $2000 all in all.
>>
>> I think this is completely reasonable.  Can someone with budgetary
>> discretion power (especially considering the source of the funds)
>> approve this, or must we all +1 it via email to ensure it happens?
>
> Wolf,
>
> I am supportive of spending on the order of $2000 to assist you and
> Hamish to attend the Mentor Summit.
>
> If there is no objection from any board member on this list by
> Wednesday morning, consider permission granted by me as Treasurer.
>
> I do feel we need to wait to Wednesday morning (your time) to give
> board members a reasonable chance to raise objections.
>
> For next years budget we should include some money in the budget
> for the SoC program (shirts, travel).  I'll try to keep this in mind.
>
> Best regards,

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