[Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Student Award initiative

Mon Mar 9 01:51:29 PDT 2015

Thanks Venka for clarification.

I also agree, that the most important thing is to involve students in OSGeo
(aka FOSS4G) and give them somethng that could be useful for their
curriculum.
Cash is important, but I see more important the participation (air tickets,
free registration, hotels, etc.) + certicate

;-)

Maxi

Il giorno lun 9 mar 2015 alle ore 01:31 Venkatesh Raghavan <
raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> ha scritto:

> On 2015/03/09 4:46, Suchith Anand wrote:
> > Sure :-) Am i right in thinking that as this year as we have the FOSS4G
> Global in Asia (Seoul), it will be FOSS4G-Asia in 2017 that we will be
> focussing for this.
> Yes, since FOSS4G-2015 is already in Asia and a special Asia Session
> is also being organized at the event, there will be no separate FOSS4G-Asia
> event in 2015. We hope to organize FOSS4G-Asia in 2016.
>
> Best presentation awards for young researchers were already initiated at
> FOSS4G-Asia 2014 [1], where Award Certificate and a token gift were
> presented to the following three presentations.
>
> 1) Best FOSS4G Use Case Award to Kazeem Owolabi and others for
> "Use case: supporting polio eradication and Ebola outbreak response"
>
> 2) Best FOSS4G Developer Award to Gérald Fenoy and NIcolas Bozon
> for "MapMint: The 100% service-oriented GIS platform"
>
> 3) Best Poster Award to Jayasinghe and others for
>   "Assess the level of vulnerability to climate exaggerated disasters in
>   Sri Lankan Coastal Areas: An Application of Open Source Geographic
> Information System"
>
> While I am not sure about the sustainability of instituting cash awards,
> award of certificates is definitely valuable for young researchers.
>
> Venka
>
> [1] http://www.foss4g-asia.org/
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Suchith
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Massimiliano Cannata [massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2015 7:38 PM
> > To: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> > Cc: OSGeo Board
> > Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [Board] Student Award initiative
> >
> > To be fear i would add also foss4g-asia.. ;-)
> >
> > Il giorno 19:51 Dom 08/Mar/2015 Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> ha
> scritto:
> > Maxi,
> >
> > Thanks for your feedbacks and ideas. My answers below
> >
> > 1. Sure , let us name it OSGeo Student Awards Initiative.
> >
> > 2. "Giving the money to support the participation of winner to
> international conferences so that they can meet the community and learn"
> is good idea. My suggestion is to leave the implementation details to the
> respective LOCs. That will give them the flexibility to decide which is the
> best way to distribute the awards for thier particular conference to make
> maximum impact. For example maybe LOC1 might want to divide the 1k USD to 5
> prizes so 5 students get bit of support or another LOC2 might decide to
> allocate to one student only.  The Chair of the LOC should send a summary
> of the Awards to the OSGeo Board after the conference.
> >
> > I also hope the LOCs will be inspired to actively find other sponsors to
> further build value for the Student Awards. For example, we already know
> that for FOSS4G 2015 conference in addition to OSGeo’s $1,000 , the FOSS4G
> Seoul LOC’s have kindly added their $1,500 contribution to this. If any
> other sponsors want to give awards directly to the students, the LOC could
> make the necessary arrangements.
> >
> > I agree with Jeroen's suggestion, that let us start small, learn and
> then expand . So if everyone agrees, let us start with FOSS4G Global,
> FOSS4G-Europe and FOSS4G-NA. Once the LOCs of these three events know that
> there will be a support of 1k USD for their conference specifically to
> support Student Awards, i am confident that they will make the necessary
> arrangements to ensure stronger participation of students in the
> conferences and also honour their contributions to OSGeo and to wider Open
> Education initiatives.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Suchith
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
> [board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On
> Behalf Of Massimiliano Cannata [massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch<mailto:
> massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2015 5:17 PM
> > To: Jeff McKenna
> > Cc: OSGeo Board
> > Subject: Re: [Board] Student Award initiative
> >
> > 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<mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> ><mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com<mailto:jmckenna@
> 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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