[Board] Student Awards - Inputs needed from the community

[Suchith Anand]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to get your inputs on how we should structure the procedures and frameworks  for the Student Award initiative, so that we can approach the OSGeo Board again for considering this request.

Please find below the draft ideas for the processes:

Why we need Framework and Structure for Student Awards?

To recognise the excellent contributions from students worldwide not only to FOSS4G but also acknowledge their contributions to open knowledge. It is important that there is structures in place to support this for future years and not just an adhoc arrangements and  OSGeo should take the actions for establishing a strong framework  for this.

Aim:

>From 2015 we aim to put in structures and procedures in OSGeo so that we are in a position to fund student awards for at least 10 Conferences/Competitions  each year (including at all FOSS4G conferences) world-wide.  Hence the request for initial seed fund of 10k USD to start this. 

Requirements:

It is important that there is one central point for managing all the accounts (within the OSGeo budget but held in a separate section)  and the OSGeo Treasurer should be the responsible contact for this and produce yearly statements for us.  It is important that OSGeo sees Student Awards as an educational investment and responsibility.

Other organisations are welcome to join the initiative but it is important that there is one central point for managing all the accounts (within the OSGeo budget but held in a separate section)  and the OSGeo Treasurer should be the responsible contact for this and produce yearly statements for us. 

Process:

Once the structures are in place, from 2015 we aim to:

* Send out a ''Call for Student Awards" scheme widely on appropriate mailing lists (osgeo discuss, etc) and also in the website of "Geo for All"
* Only LOC of established GIS conferences including FOSS4G local conferences worldwide can apply
* Interested LOCs to send their applications to the chair of the Award Committee with details of their selection procedures
* Committee selects which events/conferences to fund the student award based on a set of criteria (to be developed by Charlie in consultation with all members)
* LOC to prepare certificates and tokens of appreciation
* Make arrangements for presenting award in coordination with LOC
* Maximum 1k USD to be allocated per conference/event
* All student award winners should write a blogpost after the event  
* All awards and winner details to be promoted widely through OSGeo channels and published at Geo for All website

 
Please send your ideas/inputs before 28th Feb 2015 or directly add them to the wikipage at   http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Ica-osgeo-isprs_award

We will then request  the OSGeo Board to kindly consider this in the next Board meeting and provide their feedbacks.

Best wishes,

Suchith





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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 5:44 PM
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Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Student Awards

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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