<div><div dir="auto">OSGeo has the GeoForAll group devoted to educational an open education, and the majority of our partnerships are via this initiative. My understanding is we are very interested in forming partnerships of this nature, others here can speak more to this program. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Keep in mind our primary contribution is free software, while we are experimenting with finically supporting some of our community activities that does not extend to supporting partners directly. We will consider cross</div><div dir="auto">sponsorship for equal amounts of having sponsors is important to your story, we tend to focus joint activities instead. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Our travel grant program was set up in part to increase diversity and is available me to students. We hope to increase our budget for this program in 2019. This is an application process rather than a sponsorship. We will need to recruiters participants to review applications in order to run a travel grant program for foss4gna - perhaps you would like to help?</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We are open to setting up booth swaps or speaking engagements if there is opportunity. Our ability to do so depends on our community members having plans to attend your event.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am glad you are seeing success and hope we can be part of that success in the year ahead. </div><div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 5:57 PM Cheung, Wing <<a href="mailto:wcheung@palomar.edu" target="_blank">wcheung@palomar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">My name is Wing Cheung, and I am an Assistant Director with the National Science Foundation funded GeoTech Center of Excellence (<a href="http://www.geotechcenter.org/" target="_blank">http://www.geotechcenter.org/</a>) and a Professor of GIS/Geography
at Palomar College, San Marcos, CA. The GeoTech Center’s mission is to prepare students for the geospatial workforce by providing educators and students with geospatial curriculum and training opportunities. I was wondering if the OSGeo Board is interested
in formalizing a no-cost partnership with the GeoTech Center. We are grateful for what the Open Source Geospatial Foundation is already doing in terms of its support of our annual Geospatial Technology Student Skills Competition
<a href="http://www.geotechcenter.org/2019-geospatial-technology-skills-competition.html" target="_blank">
http://www.geotechcenter.org/2019-geospatial-technology-skills-competition.html</a> , and we will like to explore additional collaboration opportunities such as sponsoring educational participants from community colleges at FOSS4G-NA, or presenting at each
other’s conferences (our annual conference is GeoEd <a href="http://www.geotechcenter.org/geoed-19.html" target="_blank">
http://www.geotechcenter.org/geoed-19.html</a>). <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our current list of partners include organizations such as ASPRS, GISCI, URISA, and others.
<a href="http://www.geotechcenter.org/center-partners.html" target="_blank">http://www.geotechcenter.org/center-partners.html</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wing Cheung PhD, GISP<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor of Geography and GIS, <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Assistant Director of National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence,
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<p class="MsoNormal">Palomar College, San Marcos, CA 92069<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="tel:%28760%297441150%20ext.3652" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">(760)744-1150 ext.3652</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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