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

[Kannan]

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On 2020-07-19 13:40, Kannan wrote:
> 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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