Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of February 25th, 2014

[Luc Pionchon <pionchon luc gmail com>]

On 4 March 2014 19:51, Germán Póo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 10:15 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140225
> >
> > = Minutes for Tuesday, February 25th, 2014, 17:00 UTC =
> >
> > == Next Meeting ==
> >  * Monday, March 3rd, 2014, 16:00 UTC
> > [...]
> >   * Should we set aside funding for a South American event box?
> >    * '''ACTION''': Kat to ask South American events organisers for the
> > Foundation to sponsor an event box
> >    * Expected cost: USD 1000 to USD 2500
> >    * https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Grants/EventsBox
>
> This can turn out very expensive and inconvenient for people there.
>
> Have in mind that South America is bigger than appears in the map. Just
> for a reference, Ecuador -that tiny country in the map- looks smaller
> than France, but it is ~70,000 square kms bigger, it doubles size UK.

interesting.

France is about 550.000 km2, Ecuador seems to be 280.000 km2 and UK 240.000 km2