[Ica-osgeo-labs] ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Awards in Open Geospatial Science

[Jeff McKenna]

I'd be honoured to help on the GeoForAll ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS award committee.

-jeff



On 2014-08-21 9:22 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I think it is important to have Jeff, Georg and Chen (cc in) in this
> committee as it will be ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Awards that we will be awarding.
> So we will be inviting them to join the committee.
>
> Suchith
>
> *From:*Suchith Anand [mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
> *Sent:* 21 August 2014 13:12
> *To:* Posta Maria; Jeroen Ticheler
> *Cc:* Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Scholarships
>
> Thanks Jeroen, Maria, Serena, Charlie for volunteering to be in the
> committee. I will also volunteer for this committee. We can now get this
> started.
>
> Suchith
>
> *From:*Posta Maria [mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it]
> *Sent:* 21 August 2014 13:03
> *To:* Jeroen Ticheler
> *Cc:* Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Scholarships
>
> Wonderful Jeroen!! Thanks.
>
> Greetings!
>
> Maria
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> Il giorno 21/ago/2014, alle ore 06:59, Jeroen Ticheler
> <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net <mailto:jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net>> ha scritto:
>
>     Hi Suchith,
>     Great! And fast! I'll volunteer on the Award committee from the
>     sponsor side if that's useful.
>     Jeroen
>
>     On 21 aug. 2014, at 12:21, 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] 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
>
>