OSGeo Travel Grant Budget

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.

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

Updating the proposal text based on @michaelsmith7 clarifications.

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.

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.