[Board] Student Award initiative

[Suchith Anand]

Venka - great to hear about FOSS4G-Asia team giving certificate/awards for  young researchers. 

Definitely certificates acknowledging the students contribution is  a great moral boost for the students. This recognition is much much bigger than the monetary award.

It will also help other LOCs who are planning to give Student Awards to learn from your experiences.

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: Monday, March 09, 2015 12:44 PM
To: board at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Board] Student Award initiative

I want to second Venka's message, that the certificates/awards that he
and his FOSS4G-Asia team implemented, were very effective.  Kazeem
Owolabi (best use case award) spoke to me directly at how he would use
this certificate/award to further his work.

-jeff



On 2015-03-08 9:31 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> 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/




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