<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-afcd3567-7fff-7b9e-7991-d08de24ab3ec"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear OSGeo Indian Board Members</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am writing this on behalf of Hack High (</span><a href="http://hackhigh.github.io" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">hackhigh.github.io</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) team. Myself Sunveer Singh, high school student, Google Code-in 2017 Grand Prize winner with OSGeo, Open Source enthusiastic and organizer of this Open Source high school hackathon.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In India there are very few hackathons and especially on Open Source software development for High School students, and Hack High will be India’s first Open Source hackathon for high school students. So this hackathon will be motivating high school students to get started with Open Source Software Development and students can gain experience, refine their skills, make a better decision for choosing the bachelor if they participate on a Hackathon.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">India’s per capita income </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">was estimated to be $1670US on 2018?  by (UN, india goverment, dont forget to put the link also),  which is approximately a monthly salary of $139.16US,  in other words, a daily salary of $4.63US, which makes it an hourly  salary of  $0.57US hourly, because of this, it is planned to not charge the students for their participation in the hackathon.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am writing to request sponsorship from OSGeo for the hackathon, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Plans are to have challenges using OSGeoLive, challenges can come from any OSGeo projects, according to your choice.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">And OSGeo can also distribute there schwag that will encourage students to contribute to OSGeo.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-fc974054-7fff-d13e-704b-0c91eda89c64"><br></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please find our Sponsorship prospectus here: </span><a href="https://hackhigh.github.io/hackhigh.pdf" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);backgr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