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Tue 14 Mar 2017 3:50AM

STDM 2017 Code Sprint

JG Jody Garnett Public Seen by 345

We have the following request from Arnulf (in his capacity as OSGeo liaison officer with GLTN):

Dear Board,
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this is a request to support a code sprint in Nairobi, Kenya focusing on the region of Eastern Africa. The code sprint with a total budget of 19k USD is planned for end of April. This funding request is for 3k USD to account for catering at the four day event.

This activity is in support of Global Land Tool Network (which is one of our strategic partnership) approved in 2014. See: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GLTN

There is a very clear sprint budget here - https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/STDM_2017_Code_Sprint showing a wide range of sponsorship, in-kind participants, and the request for $3,000 USD to cover catering.

JG

Jody Garnett Tue 14 Mar 2017 3:53AM

This is an interesting one as:

  • we have allocated our sprint budget project by project
  • This activity looks to be a great joint-activity as part of hour vertical outreach "partner program" seeking out and collaborating with like-minded organizations.

This gives us a number of options to work with while respecting the 2017 budget.

JG

Poll Created Tue 14 Mar 2017 3:56AM

Approve $3000 USD to support STDM 2017 Code Sprint Closed Thu 16 Mar 2017 8:05PM

Outcome
by Jody Garnett Tue 25 Apr 2017 5:50AM

This motion is approved.

Recommend drawing from:

  • $2,000 code-sprint budget
  • $1,000 outreach budget

And updating the 2017 budget accordingly.

Results

Results Option % of points Voters
Agree 100.0% 9 AG MS JG SS VC V HM AT MAB
Abstain 0.0% 0  
Disagree 0.0% 0  
Block 0.0% 0  
Undecided 0% 0  

9 of 9 people have participated (100%)

JG

Jody Garnett
Agree
Tue 14 Mar 2017 6:00AM

initial motion

JG

Jody Garnett Tue 14 Mar 2017 4:00AM

I have kicked off a proposal for:

$2,000 code-sprint budget, while the technology used is a qgis-plugin this request has not been made by the QGIS PSC. I trust that another sprint will turn a profit, or we can rebalance our budget half way through the year.

$1,000 outreach budget, while we had primarily thought of this in terms of building new relationships outreach should extend to join activities with the partner relationships we do have.

NOTE: A strong case can be made for drawing just from the outreach budget (even if that requires a rebalance later). This would allow our budget to more accurately reflect what we use our money for - helping next years board plan accordingly. If you feel strongly please vote no, and we can make an alternate proposal.