Microgrants/Committee/Minutes/2020-05-25

OpenStreetMap Foundation, Microgrants Commitee - Agenda & notes
Meeting on Jitsi

Participants

• Hanna Krüger
• Chris Beddow
• Janet Chapman
• Clifford Snow
• Geoffrey Katerrega
• Joost Schouppe

Selection process

• reviewing proposals with no or low community endorsements, but that were actually endorsed by some group members

* a proposal by a very new community: high potential for growth, but also risky (move to "maybe")
* proposals that have some excluding elements: can we accept if they make some changes or are they out anyway? (moved to "maybe")

• overlapping projects: only one should be accepted
• many grants are very good, but conflict with COVID requirements, should notify to modify or resubmit intact for next time

Provisions for grants

• need to specify that equipment such as laptops must be community property
• any requirements we have about developer time should be specified

Next actions

• reduced below current cost of ~ 56,000 euros
• alternatively, decide if authorizing more funds
• keep in mind 15 proposals now, 10 was our initial estimate
• will meet on Thursday to look at finalizing
• how to make the announcement (communicate direct to recipients, and blog post?)