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

[Bart van den Eijnden]

I also did not see the whole discussion, since foss4g2016 got included late in the game, so apologies if this has been discussed before.

There was a Geocat student award in Seoul or not, since Geocat sponsored it.

What’s wrong with companies / not-for-profits sponsoring specific student awards if they pay extra sponsorship money for it? If they sponsor, I don’t see a problem with their name ending up in the award / competition.

Best regards,
Bart

> On 01 Oct 2015, at 15:41, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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> 
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> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
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