Hi GDAL PSC,
The Seattle Sprint has a surplus this year and is offering the
participants three options to deal with part of the surplus. I am
emailing to ask what the PSC wants to do with respect to the
registration paid by GDAL for Brian Case.
The options are:
1- Take a reimbursement of 100-150$ (that would go back to GDAL's budget)
2- Leave it to 2012: Turn down the reimbursement and let your share of
the surplus be split between the other sprinters from this year who
choose to take the reimbursement
3- Leave it to 2013: Turn down the reimbursement and leave your share as
part of the surplus that will be passed to the 2013 sprint in Boston
Any preference? I would be leaning towards #3...
Daniel
On 11-12-14 2:03 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Motion: The GDAL PSC authorizes funding up to US$525 to pay entrance fees
to the Islandwood Code Sprint for Brian Case.
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Brian (aka winkey) has done lots of work in recent years on and with
GDAL/OGR. Most notably he has developed the libkml based OGR KML driver.
Brian lives relatively near the Islandwood sprint and would arrange to get
himself there and other ancillary costs. We would just be paying the
entrace fees (which also implicitly covers housing and food). Information
on the Islandwood Sprint (successor to the Toronto, NYC and Montreal
sprints
of recent years) is available at:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IslandWood_Code_Sprint_2012
I'm afraid I haven't done a detailed financial review of GDAL/OGR project
funds but I think we have in excess of $10K in reserve so this is a modest
expenditure, and I think can serve the community building goals of the
project
well. I think we should also be open to similar support for other
substantial
contributors to GDAL/OGR who don't have corporate travel support, who would
like to attend the sprint, and who would be able to get themselves there.
However, that is not explicitly covered by this motion.
--
I'll start with +1 Frank.
PS. I'd love to make a new batch of GDAL project tshirts in the coming
year if someone is up to organizing.
Best regards,
--
Daniel Morissette
http://www.mapgears.com/
Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000
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