ICFOSS director is asking for help from community to help draft guidelines for funding

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