Key Goals

• timeline has shifted, people not present at universities
• budget is approved Eur 12k - for travel & rental space
• do we really need to travel ? (Michael)
  • at Sun - asked for applications (Simon)
    • advertised as jobs people applied for
    • normal application, interview & app't process
    • doesn't need to go there to do it
  • local ambassadors may have costs (Florian)
    • want to foster local activies
    • ideally with existing members already there.
  • tended to give fixed annual budget (Simon)
    • got a quarterly report back to co-ordinator
    • who mentored, ran events, provided resources.
    • ran a monthly meetup for ambassadors
  • admin costs too for transferring money (Florian)
• can we do this now ? (Michael)
  • digital campus' can still be recruited on
  • hard to get co-operation from universities (Italo)
    • if we pay them for doing it, sorting out how we do that would be quite difficult.
  • talking to staff from University of Luxembourg (Paolo)
    • would love more information on spreading LibreOffice there.

Is there any update to the program?
Given universities were closed for some time, and your time was used heavily for the marketing plan, what's a realistic timeline for moving forward?

I am now in contact with someone from the university of Berlin. They might be interested in the program as well. Do you have time to share the status quo with them, maybe also discussing some bits and pieces on the phone to get feedback?

Program launch is related to the current lockdown, where social activities in universities (i.e. activities not related to lessons, exams and graduations) are frozen until the pandemics will be under control. So, postponing.