[Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Student Awards - Inputs needed from the community

[Jorge Sanz]

2015-02-10 10:41 GMT+01:00 Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>:
> Helena and all,
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> The aim is that we are able to fund student awards for at least 10 Conferences/Competitions each year  (including at all FOSS4G main events) world-wide with  maximum 1k USD to be allocated per conference/event. If there are more than 10 applications per year we have to decide which ones to fund based on the set of criteria to be established. I request Charlie Schweik as the chair of the committee to decide the award criteria with inputs from all.  Once the framework is in place, we will invite other Geo organisations including ICA, ISPRS to contribute directly to OSGeo for expanding this student awards initiative.
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> As Patrick said, i only wanted to put the big picture with you all on this and it is up to the Board and the Award Committee to decide the details of how to do the most good with OSGEO support.
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> Not only the FOSS4G main events (Euro, NA, World) can apply to organise student awards with this initiative but others also are welcome to submit their applications. For example, if colleagues in Mexico or South Africa  are organising a local FOSS4G or  any other GIS related conferences are organising a FOSS4G session  and wish to give student awards for the student best papers, they can send an email with all their details (website of the student competion, the panel judging the awards, criteria of their selection procedures etc) to the chair of the awards committee and the Award committee will look into the proposal against the set of criteria and make decision quickly.
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> Hope it gives the idea of the scale we wish to expand this once the frameworks are in place.
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> Suchith


So if I understood well, in essence this is about a series of awards
all over FOSS4G/Geospatial conferences to award students that have had
a significant contribution to Open Source. Leaving apart of the
details (who decides who is awarded, the amount, etc) I support the
idea as a consistent, regular prize that many conferences will want to
participate. In fact I'd expect to have some competition on which ones
get a prize, that will be more work for the committee, but that's
good!

It will not only be a great incentive to students and teachers, the
outreach potential for GeoForAll idea, ISPRS, ICA and OSGeo will be
huge.

Thanks Suchith for the effort on putting some light on the idea, at
least from my part, you guys at GeoForAll have all the support but as
was said on the Board meeting, we the Directors want to do our job
responsibly and needed more details on the general idea of the awards.

Best

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