Hi Folks,
Let me shed a little light on the process and constraints on Elysa's great idea to solicit help promoting the work of your TC.
You can imagine OASIS travel budgets are like every one else's these days - limited and carefully evaluated. Your request for travel funding will be evaluated by the Steering Committee (and OASIS staff) on the basis of the presentation or other work you would be doing to promote the adoption of the CAP and related Standards - or participation in the TC. I am sorry to report, and you won't be surprised to know, that OASIS funds can't be used to simply attend a conference, there has to be s strong element of serving the entire emergency community in OASIS. So when you request funding, make sure you have some of those other details worked out, or at least in the works, and include that in your request.
It is important to get your request and background info to Elysa and the Steering Committee early enough so they can approve your request, assign a spending cap and submit the request to OASIS staff. That needs to be completed before you make any spending commitments - you don't want to buy airline tickets before you know you will actually be refunded your costs. ;-)
Hope that helps,
Scott...