[Board] Student Awards

[Suchith Anand]

Dear OSGeo Board,

Thanks to contributions from ICA (500 Euros) and ISPRS (500 Euros) for the NASA Europa Challenge 2015 student prize, and confirmation from GeoCat to support student award at FOSS4G 2015 at Seoul, we are in a position to start the process of initiating ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Student Awards in Open Geospatial Science. Georg Gartner (ICA President) will be there at FOSS4G-Europe 2015 at Como to deliver keynote and to present the award.

We want to make use of this opportunity to setup a long term system for Student Awards and would like to  make sure there is a system and process setup in place, so that it is long term and hence have setup an Award committee (following nominations from the Geo for All community plus the 3 Presidents of ICA, ISPRS and OSGeo)  and now now working to setup procedures and process to put this on a firm footing. So all ideas/suggestions welcome.

Hence to help start things, we request OSGeo Board to allocate 10k USD from the OSGeo budget for initiating the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Student Awards scheme. This a seed amount to start the initiative. This will be administered by the OSGeo Treasurer and this Award Committee with Charlie Schweik as chair will be responsible for approving which conference/events/competitions to fund the awards. Also we will invite other interested organisations who wish to support this Award initiative to directly send their funding to OSGeo and the OSGeo treasurer will administer this for us. It is important that a system and structure is setup in place so that it builds upon for the future.

Award Committee :

* Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)
* Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)
* Prof. Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)
* Prof. Charlie Schweik (USA) - Committee Chair
* Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli ( Italy)
* Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA)
* Dr. Luciene Delazari ( Brazil)
* Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu ( Malaysia)
* Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan ( Japan/India)
* Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil)
* Jeroen Ticheler (Italy)
* Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa)
* Prof. Helena Mitasova ( USA)
* Anne Ghisla (Germany)
* Patrick Hogan (USA)
* Suchith Anand (UK/India)

I have created a wiki page to get things started at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Ica-osgeo-isprs_award  . Feel free to add your ideas to the wiki directly.

I request all of you to contribute your ideas for this and discuss this in your next Board meeting. If you have any queries or need more information please email the Geo for All list and we will be pleased to give any details needed.

Best wishes,

Suchith



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