I've sent this to treasurer@ since it will, ultimately be the treasurer who signs off on any spend. I don't expect any problems, just making sure the specifics of the proposal don't step over any lines drawn by our charitable status.
Ross On 18 September 2012 12:57, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have learned that the following discussion/proposal should to be on > ooo-dev instead of ooo-private. > > A summary for the background: > AOO has some money from the pre-Apache time (the SPI fund) which we (AOO > community) can spend for our project. There was a discussion on ooo-private > to use some of this money for the ApacheCon EU 2012, Germany in Nov. 2012. > A small discussion took place and more or less ended in the below proposal > which I had made: > > Here is my proposal for fund allocation for ApacheCon EU 2012, Germany in > Nov. 2012; more or less a summary of the former discussion of this topic. > > - 10 x 300 EUR flat subsidies for travel expenses; double the subsidy for > cases of hardship, e.g. persons who need to take a long flight. > -- criteria for granting subsidy: > (a) preference order: invited speakers, committers, non-committers > (b) person lacks of corporate funding and TAC funding > (c) person needs to spend at least 300 EUR on travel > (d) person need accommodation for at least 2 nights > > - 30 x 100 EUR ticket discount for non-committers > -- criteria for granting discount: > (a) person lacks of corporate funding and TAC funding > > A small group of volunteers are needed to drive the granting process: > - define application form and deadlines > - run the application process > - accept/reject the applications > > I am volunteering to be part of this small group. > Who else is joining? > > If nobody objects in the next 72 hours, I will put the proposal into > practice. > > Best regards, Oliver. -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
