DIAL OSC Funding + Project Proposals

[Tenly Snow]

Dear Product + Technical Committee members, 

 

The DIAL Open Source Center has announced their latest round of funding – what they call the Catalytic Grant program. These are small grants of about $25k that are meant to fund activities in open source projects and communities that aren’t typically covered by other sources of funding. Past recipients include ODK, LibreHealth, and Humanitarian Open Street Map. 

 

All grant information, including details on the current themes (ie. what types of projects they will fund) can be found on this page: http://www.osc.dial.community/grants.html

 

As we continue to professionalize and formalize our community, we have realized a need for a better define the process by which we coordinate and vote on proposals and apply for funding. As such, the core team proposes this process to responding to funding opportunities: https://openlmis.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OP/pages/379584562/Community+Proposal+Voting+Process+-+DIAL+OSC+Catalytic+Grants+June+2018

 

For this round of funding through DIAL, they have asked that the open source project only submit one proposal per project. This means that we will need to coordinate and vote as a Community on which proposal we would like to submit on behalf of OpenLMIS. This will follow the guidelines listed in the wiki link above. 

 

The deadline for submission is fast approaching. Our proposed process for this round is as follows: 

 

May 22: Deadline to submit a project proposal on Jira 

May 29: Deadline for Community vote on selected proposal 

May 31: Deadline to submit proposal to DIAL 

Mid-June: Award recipients notified 

 

Please let me (Tenly) know if you have questions regarding the process or timeline for submission. Looking forward to your ideas! 

Warm regards,

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Tenly Elizabeth Snow, MS 

OpenLMIS Community Manager

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[Tenly Snow]

Hello all,

Just a brief reminder that our internal Community deadline for submitting a proposal idea for the DIAL OSC funding is tomorrow, May 22. 

Warm regards,

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Tenly Elizabeth Snow, MS 

OpenLMIS Community Manager

tenly.sn...@openlmis.org

CELL/WhatsAPP: +1.406.544.4856   

SKYPE: tenly.snow.vr 

OpenLMIS.org  OpenLMIS Wiki 

[Tenly Snow]

Hello everyone,

Thanks to all in the community who submitted proposals for the DIAL OSC grant cycle. The submission period for proposals is now closed. 

We have three great proposals that can be viewed by visiting this link, or by filtering using the label “DialOscJune18” in Jira. 

The voting period for these proposals is now open. In light of Monday’s holiday, as well as an announcement this morning by DIAL that the proposal submission deadline has been extended to June 15, the voting period will be open until next Thursday, from 5/24 – 5/31. 

As a refresher, the voting guidelines can be found on this wiki page and are listed below: 

• Vote by using the Jira voting function (on the right-hand side of the screen when viewing an issue, must be logged in)
• Voting more than once is allowed
• In the event of a tie, the Community Manager (CM) will break the tie 
• The CM will work with the winner to finalize the proposal for submission to DIAL 
• Voting is open from today, 5/24 – thursday, 5/31

Happy voting and thanks for being a great open source community!