[Board] Student Award initiative

[Massimiliano Cannata]

Jeff, suchith,
I agree to provide money to start student award, which is very important in
my opinion.

Frankly speacking,  my concerns are about:
1) osgeo is giving money for prize, and i see this a way also to fidelize
youngs to our association and take part of the community, so i would like
to see the award in the name of osgeo. Otherwise if it is in the name of
others, they have to contribute equally.

2) i see the potential of bracking down prizes to conferences where few
competitors are concurring. In these cases I would rather give money to
support the participation of winner to international conferences so that
they can meet the community and learn

Just for the record, during he last meeting i suggested to approve the seed
money and then decide case to case based on further specification.

Btw, i think that having 5k is a good starting point.

Maxi
Il giorno 08/mar/2015 14:24, "Jeff McKenna" <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
ha scritto:

> 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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