[FOSS4G2016] "Geo4All - MapStory Challenge" - FOSS4G 2016 Student Competitions

[Jeff McKenna]

In fact Daniel that was my very first response to Suchith, about 50 
emails ago.  If you can champion that, work with Suchith to explain, 
that would be very helpful.

-jeff



On 2015-09-30 8:13 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
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> Hi Suchith,
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> Probably I didn't get the whole story, so sorry if it was said before.
> I'm wondering why this award should have "MapStory" in the name. It
> will be an award for students, so one requirement will be, that only
> students can participate. But if you name it "Geo4All - MapStory
> Challenge" everybody will understand that you must use MapStory.
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> You wouldn't call it the next year "Geo4All - PostGIS Challenge" for
> instance, would you? Even if it had an OSGeo project in the name it
> would be discriminating against others.
>
> So I understand Jeff's point. And I think there is a really simple
> solution by just naming it "Geo4All Challenge 2016" without
> highlighting any particular project and leave this up to the students
> to be creative. Nobody wants to exclude MapStory from being used in
> the challenge. It's just about the naming of the challenge.
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> Best,
> Daniel
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