[Board] Student Awards - Inputs needed from the community

Sat Feb 14 14:28:06 PST 2015

Not sure, how we can help - any idea?

Fri Feb 13 2015 at 21:07:25 odesílatel Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> napsal:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> Yes, there will be additional work on the OSGeo Treasurer and i also very
> much know it is also a volunteer position , so i can only request Mike
> (Treasurer) if he will be okay to also handle the around 10 student awards
> planned.  Will anyone else in the OSGeo Board willing to help Mike support
> this student award? We can inform the local event committees and arrange
> payments to suit the timings that suits the OSGeo treasurer.
>
> All ideas welcome.
>
> Suchith
>
> ________________________________________
> From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On
> Behalf Of Jeff McKenna [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 5:06 PM
> To: board at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Board] Student Awards - Inputs needed from the community
>
> Hi Suchith,
>
> Thanks for explaining this Student Award initiative to the OSGeo Board.
>
> Reading your thorough plan for the award, I am in full support of the
> plan, however my concern is putting so much work/responsibility on the
> OSGeo Treasurer, a volunteer position (at least 10 payments to various
> local event committees each year).
>
> Mike (treasurer), what are your own thoughts on that?
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> On 2015-02-11 7:31 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> > Hi Maxi,
> >
> > This student award is an OSGeo initiative (though we will welcome any
> other interested organisations to join and contribute once the structure is
> in place) and that is why i put the proposal directly to OSGeo Board and
> want the OSGeo to run this and made it clear that it will be the OSGeo
> Treasurer who will be in charge of all finance. The Award Committee is only
> there to facilitate the student awards globally. I leave it to OSGeo Board
> and Treasuer to advice us on which will be best way for this ( i do not
> have any expertise on finance matters).
> >
> > The 10K USD budget allocation from OSGeo budget is requested  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.
> >
> > To answer your questions
> >
> > 1. My suggestion is that it is named " Geo for All" Student Awards .
> Obviously ICA and ISPRS are involved in Geo for All , so we will have their
> logos also in the certificates given out by the local competitions. It is
> also a great boost for the students CV (much more important than the
> monetary award) that their work is recognised by all three great
> organisations. My humble suggestion is that OSGeo Board sees this Student
> Awards as an educational investment and responsibility and should lead
> this. If others join we should welcome them but not keep that as a
> requirement to start the initiative.
> >
> > 2. Any interested organisations who wish to contribute to the student
> awards should directly contact the OSGeo Treasuer and i suggest that there
> is a website created for the Student Awards initiative
> >
> > 3. We plan to support at least 10 conferences/events each year.
> >
> > Once we get the OSGeo Board approval, we will
> >
> > - 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
> >
> > 4. In which occasion? What is the amount of the single prize?
> >
> > Though the FOSS4G main events (World, Europe, NA) are the obvious ones ,
> we can only know which all conferences/events  will apply once we send the
> call for student awards scheme out.
> >
> > But i am sure there will be strong response. For example yesterday on
> the sidelines of the Certification ideas tele meeting we had at Geo for
> All, i was explaining the ideas behind the Student Awards and came to know
> details of QGIS Developer/User meeting planned in Copenghagen. That is
> really good opportunity and if we have structures in place, i am sure the
> main organisor Lene Fischer will be happy to plan ideas for  student
> competition and apply for this.
> >
> > The maximum allocation per event will be 1k USD. If the local organisers
> are able to use this to get other sponsors etc  to increase the value of
> the awards, it will be excellent
> >
> > I have put all my suggestions in the wiki at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/
> Ica-osgeo-isprs_award, so please add/contribute your ideas on how we can
> improve this directly as well. If you have any other specific queries, feel
> free to email me.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Suchith
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Massimiliano Cannata [massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 9:53 AM
> > To: Suchith Anand; Jorge Sanz
> > Cc: board at lists.osgeo.org; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [Board] Student Awards - Inputs needed
> from the community
> >
> > Hi Suchith,
> > Thanks for leading this initiative with great passion and competence.
> >
> > As member of the board, as you ask for 10k USD, personally, I would
> appreciate having already defined rules, but as I know the Award Committee
> will do a great job in that, I am more concerned in understanding how
> moneys are planned to be spent in 2015 (where the 10k come from basically)
> and how OSGeo is involved.
> >
> > Just, some questions that came to my mind:
> > - will be the award be in the name of the ICA-OSGEO-ISPRS?
> > - If yes, how will other association contribute?
> > - How many do you plan to assign in 2015?
> > - In which occasion? What is the amount of the single prize?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Maxi
> >
> >
> >
> > Il giorno Wed Feb 11 2015 at 10:37:15 AM Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> ha
> scritto:
> > Hi Jorge,
> >
> > You understood correctly and i appreciate the excellent work of all
> OSGeo  Directors and it is important to get feedbacks from you all so we
> can improve the ideas.
> >
> > Yes, the details of how to run the individual competitions, who are in
> the judging panel etc are to be left with the local organisers. Maybe it is
> easier to explain giving an example  using the NASA WW Challenge that Maria
> and Patrick are organising at FOSS4G -Europe 2015
> >
> > As long as the competition has a set for criteria established on which
> they will evaluate the entries (see at http://eurochallenge.como.
> polimi.it/challenge2014  )  and a panel of experts
> http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/org_sccom  to do the evaluation, it
> is a good example of an initiative to support for the student awards. In
> fact, this was this competition which got me thinking that it will be good
> if we can put in place a structure to replicate this Student Awards for
> other FOSS4G and GIS events.
> >
> > Similarly , if it is a student paper compeition or poster competion etc
> they will have different requirements and in my humble opinion the Award
> Committee should leave the details of the competition and the selection to
> the LOC who are organising the individual events. The Award Committee main
> role is to facilitate and encourage the LOCs of various events in their aim
> to give student awards and increase student participation for FOSS4G. The
> Award Committee will also have to be flexible and learn to accommodate new
> ideas/inputs as it grows. The reason to set up a globally distributed
> awards committee is to make sure there is healthy debates for bringing
> collective inputs and great ideas.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Suchith
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Maria Antonia Brovelli [maria.brovelli at polimi.it<mailto:
> maria.brovelli at polimi.it>]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:24 AM
> > To: Jorge Sanz; Suchith Anand
> > Cc: board at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>;
> ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Student Awards - Inputs needed
> from       the community
> >
> > Yes, Jorge this is exactly the idea. Being more detailed at this level
> is difficult, because it depends on the events of the following years. In
> my opinion now we are at the very beginning and it is better to evaluate
> year by year how to use these resources. In any case there is an Advisory
> Board in the geoforall initiative that can  discuss about the specific
> awards. It won't be an individual decision.
> > Thanks a lot!
> > Maria
> >
> >
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> <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> per
> conto di Jorge Sanz <jsanz at osgeo.org<mailto:jsanz at osgeo.org>>
> > Inviato: mercoledì 11 febbraio 2015 09.15
> > A: Suchith Anand
> > Cc: board at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>;
> ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
> > Oggetto: Re: [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Student Awards - Inputs needed
> from       the community
> >
> > 2015-02-10 10:41 GMT+01:00 Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>>:
> >> Helena and all,
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Hope it gives the idea of the scale we wish to expand this once the
> frameworks are in place.
> >>
> >> 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
> >
> > --
> > Jorge Sanz
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