Open Geoscience Committee/budget 2018

Open Science Committee Budget Planning 2018

The OpenGeosSci committee requests to OSGeo a total budget for the 2018 of 6,100 USD.

This is intended to cover:

• 1 hosted event at EGU 2018 (Townhall/Splinter, including catering costs) (2,600 USD)
• Hackathons (Open Monitoring, AGU) (3,000 USD)
• unforenseen costs (500 USD)

Here the detailed estimates based on previous conducted events.

EGU General Assembly 2018

• Event: townhall (EGU Townhall 2018)
• Venue rental: none
• Catering: 2,000 USD (based on last years experience) [required]
• Promotional material: 100 USD (Posters/flyers announcing the event) [required]
• Give aways: 500 USD (production of OSGeo-live USB-drives)
• Sub-Total requested budget: 2,600 USD [Expenses: 1207 EUR / 1400 USD]

Open monitoring hackathons

• Events: 4/5 hackathons with about 20 attendees
• Venue rental: none (in combination with FOSS4G-IT, FOSS4G-Asia, FOSS4G-EU, FOSS4G, AGU GA ...)
• Catering & handsout: 2,000 USD (4/5 contribution for coffee breaks and handouts)
• Training/Promotional material: 1000 USD (100 open hardware kit , OSGeo branded arduino + temp. sensor + led)
• Sub-Total requested budget: 3,000 USD