Hi Mike,
I agree with you. My suggestion to spread out the code sprint was only
to ensure that the community has some idea some idea when
the sprint could be expected and when/how to request OSGeo
Foundation for support.
I would like to see more an more code sprints (also incubation sprints
etc.) being organized in the future being as and when the community
finds it necessary.
I think, we only need to ensure that the procedure to request for
support and
guidelines to be followed are know to everyone in our community.
Best
Venka
On 2/22/2016 3:07 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
All,
I don't think there is a reason to have code sprints coordinate their times
to spread them out over the year. They should run when they need to run. We
don't have a cash flow issue that would require this.
And for the Paris Code Sprint, although a request was made, it does not
appear at this time that it will be needed with the carryover funding and
with the sponsorships.
I firmly agree that Code Sprints are one of the more important things that
the foundation does and if there are worthy candidates for funding, then I,
for one, would like to see our budget expand to cover these. What we have
now is just an expectation based on past support, but if new ones come along
that meet our guidelines, I don't see a reason not to support them no matter
the time period or if they exceed our current budget.
Mike
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From: Board <board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Venkatesh Raghavan
<ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
Date: Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 6:35 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo Board
<bo...@lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [Board] Funding code Sprints
Dear All,
Considering OSGeo budget for 2016, I think, it could be
possible to support 3 or 4 Code Sprints at similar
sponsorship levels for each sprint as in the past.
I would like to propose to have code spread across three or four
periods across the year e.g Jan-March, April-June, July-Sept, Oct-Dec
and have RFP's for code sprints just like we have for our annual
conference.
OSGeo Code Sprint in Paris starting from today (22 Feb., 2016), fits very
well
for the first quarter of 2016. I see a great lineup of projects
and participants for the Paris Code Sprint [1].
Code sprints are an integral part of FOSS4G Conferences which is our
largest gathering of users and developers. It will be appropriate that
OSGeo Foundation supports Code Sprints at FOSS4G conferences as
an official event for the July-September period.
Best
Venka
[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Paris_Code_Sprint_2016
On 2016/02/20 18:07, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
Dear All,
this is to acknowledge that there is a topic on discussion within the board
directors on assigning funds to sprint code requests.
Up to now a request-voting-fund approach has been followed without any
specific plan.
Since the board f2f meeting (thank you community for supporting that as i
believe it was an enormous opportunity for OSGeo to speed up advances and
was so fruitful) a budget has been draft and resources has been allocated.
With this mail I would personally like to ask a few questions the different
communities:
- who is intended to present a fund request for sprint code in 2016. This
will give an idea of the number of expected requests.
- do you have preferences on criteria for assign resources and eventually
what is your choice motivation?
Thank you,
Maxi
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