Microgrants/Timeline

Timeline 2016-10 onwards.

Date	Details
2017-05	Face-to-face board meeting discussion.
2017-07	Board meeting - Discussion about Microgrant fundraising.
2017-08	Member question about whether any decision has been taken.
2018-04	Face-to-face board meeting discussion.
2018-06	Board meeting update - Next steps: Finalise eligibility criteria, Clean draft document, Round of consultation with the membership and Advisory Board members.
2018-07	Board meeting update - Suggestion of session during State of the Map 2018 to get some community input. Proposed as a starting point, since not everyone is going to SotM. Board working session. Two microgrant -related sessions at State of the Map 2018 conference: OSMF session ("Microgrants @ OSMF. Give some input"). HOT session ("OSM Community Grants: sharing experiences").
2018-08	Board meeting update - Some points and questions from the SotM 2018 discussions .
2018-09	Board meeting update - Consultation document on OSMF website ready to be shared with membership and the Advisory Board members. Contains outline and top questions. Will be followed by a comment period. Board working session.
2018-10	Consultation document shared with membership (thread) and the Advisory Board members, with outline and top questions.
2019-05	F2F board meeting - work restarted afterwards.
2019-08	Board working session. Board meeting - Discussion about selection committee. osmf-talk question about access to documentation of F2F decisions.
2019-10	Document put to vote. Member provided feedback on document being voted and asked board to stop voting and discuss with membership. Voting cancelled, board then asked membership for feedback (thread). Board meeting - update.
2020-01	Membership feedback asked (thread) on this second published draft of the document (diff with first version). Second published draft with minor changes accepted by board.
2020-02	Call for microgrants committee. Creation of a Gitlab private repository for the Microgrants team by Secretary.