[Ica-osgeo-labs] Scholarships

Thu Aug 21 04:07:53 PDT 2014

Charlie , thank you and I request you to be the chair of this committee ☺  Excellent points.

I am confident that once we have the framework in place, there will be many more contributors and collaborators for the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS student awards.

Suchith

From: Charles Schweik [mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
Sent: 21 August 2014 11:47
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: Jeroen Ticheler; Jeff McKenna; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Scholarships

This is really great. As a faculty I can see this getting some good attention to our network but also be a real inspiration for some student. The offer by Jeroen is terrific -- Thanks Jeroen!

I'll volunteer to be on the committee.

But one thing the committee needs to consider is the longer-term viability. In my experience, universities set up fellowship awards after a minimum fund has been established so it can make interest over time to help cover the award and be self-sustaining. We should think of that over the longer term. At one university I have worked with the minimum was $20K USD.

I think we move forward with a first award but use this to leverage/fundraise to get to a point where there is a self-sustaining fund perhaps.

Finally, this idea could be extended not just to someone who already has the skills and has something to present, but in the GeoForAll mindset, also having a fund to support one needy student who might not have the chance to attend the conference and who is planning on doing something later in their educational program related to open source geospatial technologies.

So down the road, perhaps two different awards, if enough funds can be raised? That can be a longer-term vision perhaps.

Cheers
Charlie

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi Jeroen,

This is excellent and thank you and GeoCat for this. We will now setup a committee for ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs student travel awards to help with this.

All - this is a call for participants (we need 5 of you including a chair) to be part of this Award committee and setup procedures for student applications and evaluvation.

Suchith

-----Original Message-----
From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of Jeroen Ticheler
Sent: 21 August 2014 11:08
To: Jeff McKenna; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Scholarships

Hi Jeff,
Good you bring this up! I've been thinking about such thing for a long time and discussed it within a small group of friends back than. GeoCat would be willing to sponsor such type of thing. I would like to see that have the form of a competition where it would be great if ICA OSGeo labs would assist with the process of student applications and evaluation to come to a winner, second and third prize. First prize could indeed be a trip to the FOSS4G conference to receive the prize and present the winning work. If this is of interest I'm available to discuss details.
Greetings,
Jeroen

On 20 aug. 2014, at 22:53, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com<mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I saw a news item[1] that made me wonder if we (Geo for All) could create scholarships for students; is it a far stretched dream to imagine one scholarship (a one-time payment, plus a plaque) to a single graduate student at each of our ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs around the world each year?  The award would be given to a student who promotes Open Geospatial in their education and research, and would be done in the name of the supporting organizations (ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo).
>
> What do you think?  Or has this topic been discussed already?
>
> Could this in fact be made into a 'requirement' for becoming an ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab?
>
> -jeff
>
>
> http://www.esri.ca/en/content/esri-canada-gis-scholarships
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> ica-osgeo-labs mailing list
> ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs

This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.   Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment.  Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham.

This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment
may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

_______________________________________________
ica-osgeo-labs mailing list
ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs

--
Charlie Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Department of Environmental Conservation - http://eco.umass.edu
Center for Public Policy and Administration - http://masspolicy.org
Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government - http://ncdg.org
Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545
Outsmart Invasive Species project: http://masswoods.net/outsmart
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/attachments/20140821/069774cc/attachment.html>