[Board] Student Award initiative

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks for this message Suchith.  Some members of the Board apparently 
still have concerns, and I have asked them to directly respond to you 
with their concerns.  Board: please do reply to this message if you have 
questions for Suchith and the GeoForAll community.

I personally feel that we the Board should support this Student Award 
initiative, and provide the 10k in seed funds for awards.  The important 
point here is to give appreciation for students who push FOSS4G in their 
research.  Students can use the awards as a way to get further funding 
for their research, and also for continuing onto the next graduate level 
of their studies.  And our community benefits by having yet another 
passionate advocate for FOSS4G.  Win-win.

Thank you Board.

-jeff





On 2015-03-07 2:40 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> Dear Board,
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> Please let us know what improvements/changes you want for the Student Award initiative. As i told before , if you have specific ideas that need to be in place please suggest them and we are happy to implement any changes needed.
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> We have been trying to get as much inputs from the community and all inputs we got we have added including to start small (with three events - FOSS4G, FOSS4G-Europe and FOSS4G-NA)
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> We have put in lot of efforts to build up momentum for Openness in GeoEducation over the years and now we are getting real momentum building up in our Open Geo Education activities globally . It has been combined efforts of all colleagues in OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS  who all come together for the first time on this "Geo for All" mission of making Geospatial Education and opportunities available for all that made this momentum possible.
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> I really hope we can make this Student Awards happen. It doesn't matter which form it takes shape  but please make it happen.
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> Best wishes,
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> Suchith
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