This is a forwarded email from Praveen.

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/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 // /

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/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 a week'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/

Please express your responses in the matrix group /#icfoss:matrix.org/.

With Regards,

Athul