[smc-discuss] ICFOSS director is asking for help from community to help draft guidelines for funding

[Kannan V M]

On July 15th evening 7pm, the new ICFOSS director Sabarish K had a discussion on the concerns about ICFOSS presented by Free Software communities. The responses by ICFOSS Director are collected by Akshay and are given here (https://pad.disroot.org/p/ICFOSS_New_Director_Response_To_Old_Points).

Concluding the discussion, director has requested us the following

1.) Volunteers for framing a guideline and criteria for funding
2.) Proposals from member groups for developing 2 Open fonts not fontforged variants
3.) Contribution of case studies for impact of Libre software in Kerala
4.) List of Communities and their Nomanclature
5.) List of Captains representatives for inclusion in the board for project/event selection and fellow selection.
6.) Wholehearted support

He has given us six days to respond to it.

In order to respond to his requests, lets have a meeting this Sunday at 3pm on https://meet.fsci.in/ICFOSSResponseMeet

If any community or person are missed in the mail thread, please add to this mail thread or let them know about the meet up.


-kannan


July 15, 2020 9:10 PM, "Pirate Praveen" <praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Today we had a good discussion with new ICFOSS director Sabarish K and the discussions are still
> continuing at #icfoss:matrix.org matrix channel.
> 
> Sabarish K: frame a guideline for funding, fixing criteria
> 
> Naveenpf: community grants can be split as
> 
> 1. Project grant
> 2. Events and Travel grant
> 
> Project grant proposals can be invited once in a month in a year.
> 
> Events and travel grant proposal invited anytime.
> 
> Grants committee should be formed with community members. All depends on yearly budget for
> community grant.
> 
> Structure for fund expenditure reporting template should be in place. (can be reused from wikimedia
> grants reporting)
> 
> Hrishi: Adding to this,
> Travel support can be of two types.
> 1. Grants
> 2. interestless loans
> 
> The second one should be easy to work out. Few years back I was in need of a travel support when I
> had an opportunity to present one of my projects in a prestigious event abroad. The organizers were
> reimbursing the travel expenses but I had to advance it to make the arrangements. I tried to get
> support from many such govt programs (including startup mission) in vain. If such a travel support
> can be arranged, it is not an expense per say. As the candidate will repay it when she gets the
> reimbursement.
> 
> Sabarish K: This is a good suggestion, biggest task before me is to frame meticulously charted
> guidelines for each of the external funding progs. Otherwise it may be the Next Story of Nepotism..
> Navenpdf: Open proposals, community endorsements, diverse grant committee and open reporting will
> help
> 
> You can see his responses to our demands we send to last ICFOSS director here
> https://pad.disroot.org/p/ICFOSS_New_Director_Response_To_Old_Points
> 
> If you'd like to volunteer to be part of this team to draft guidelines for funding from ICFOSS,
> please reply. We can send him the list of people volunteered in aweek's time (by next Wednesday
> 22nd July.
> 
> There are also other promises from him like funding font development which I hope someone will take
> up. See the pad linked above or join the matrix group to see all the points.
> 
> Thanks
> Praveen
> 
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