[Board] Student Award initiative

[Suchith Anand]

Jeff, thanks for the updates.

My suggestion is let the members of the Board who has ideas on how we can structure the student award initiative, please put your ideas and processes in a wiki page and share with all of us. It doesn't matter what structure you propose , we are happy to support it  . The aim is that we are able to have a structure to make it possible to have Student Awards at FOSS4G-Global, FOSS4G-EU and FOSS4G- NA every year. 

Also following feedback from Jeron , i agree that should start small and learn and then expand.  Hence my suggestion is that OSGeo budgets  3k USD allocation (1k USD for each event to be given directly to the LOC of the event) to get this started.  As this is something new , let us see how we are able to do this for one year and then decide based on feedbacks from the LOC, community and the students who received the award next year on how to scale this up for the future. But unless we start , we cannot progress. 

Best wishes,

Suchith
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From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2015 1:24 PM
To: board at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Board] Student Award initiative

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,
>
> 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.
>
> 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)
>
> 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.
>
> I really hope we can make this Student Awards happen. It doesn't matter which form it takes shape  but please make it happen.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
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