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

[Kannan]

Reminder for today's meetup to discuss responses to ICFOSS's requests to
Free Software Communities.

Meetup will start on 3pm Sunday at https://meet.fsci.in/ICFOSSResponseMeet

On 2020-07-15 23:13, Kannan V M wrote:
> 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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