[OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Student Awards for FOSS4G 2015, Seoul

[Jorge Sanz]

On behalf of "Geo for All"  http://www.geoforall.org  , we are pleased
to announce the winners of the OSGeo Student Awards for FOSS4G 2015,
Seoul


1) OSGeo Best Oral Presentation Student Award
Title:Analysis of Spatial Density Utilizing the Big Data of Floating
Population of Seoul City
Authors: Hailin Kim (Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea)


2) OSGeo Best Poster Presentation Award
Title: Mobile Application of Open Source Stack to Geo-based Data
Visualization on E-Government Web Framework
Authors: Kwangseob Kim (Hansung University), Hanseam Park, Kiwon Lee,
Republic of Korea


3) FOSS4G Seoul Best Oral Presentation Student Award
Title: Landmark Based Path Planning And Linear Path Generation For
Mobile Map Applications
Authors: Thejaka Mahaulpatha (Sri Lanka Institute of Information
Technology), Pasindu Chandrasekara,Dananjaya Thathsara, Irendra
Koswatta, Nimalika Fernando, Sri Lanka


4) FOSS4G Seoul Best Poster Presentation Award
Title: Development of Opensource-based Photogrammetric UAV System
Using Smart Camera
Authors: Jinwoo Park (Pukyong National University), Hohyun Jung,
DongYoon Shin, Chuluong Cho,Republic of Korea



It is worth noting that the winner of OSGeo Best Oral Presentation
Student Award, Hailin Kim (Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, Republic
of Korea), is high school student! That is really excellent news and
builds upon FOSS4G Europe's student competition win by students from a
high school in Alaska for the Europa Challenge 2015 . Details at
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/07/ica-osgeo-isprs-awards-for-nasa-europa-challenge-2015
  This shows the new generation is much ahead in leading Open
Principles in Education and we need to give them more support.


We congratulate all of them for their excellent work and contributions
to FOSS4G and Open Principles. These student awards have been possible
thanks to the support of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, so we
thank the OSGeo Board , community and the LOC for their strong
support. Special thanks to Sanghee Shin, Venkatesh Raghavan, Maria
Brovelli, Jeff McKenna and everyone in the G4A Team who made this
possible. Sanghee Shin has kindly provided the url of some of the
photos in Flikr https://www.flickr.com/photos/135608763@N08/  (our
thanks to the volunteer who took the photos)


Based on feedbacks received from the community , we have decided that
the Student Award initiative at FOSS4G conferences  from now will be
handled by the GeoforAll Team (by keeping in touch with LOC) .  As
this is new initiative, we are learning from experiences, feedbacks
and will improve for the future events. We are also looking into ideas
for making the student competition more wider ( to include students
from various disciplines and different levels so students from high
schools to university level can participate). The aim of the awards is
to recognise the excellent contributions from students worldwide not
only to FOSS4G but also acknowledge their contributions to open
knowledge and being good global citizens by helping spread the
benefits of education to all.


Professor Venkatesh Raghavan also gave  an excellent Plenary
presentation on Geo4All. The slides are available at
http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

We thank the whole Seoul Team for their hard work and efforts over
many months for making a very successful FOSS4G global conference
http://2015.foss4g.org  in Asia.

Now it is the turn of Bonn Team  http://2016.foss4g.org to carry on
the good work :)