[Board] Student Award initiative

[Jeff McKenna]

But what I was told by the recipients at FOSS4G-Asia, is that these 
certificates/awards are much more than a 'moral boost'; they use these 
certificates to justify/apply for more funding at their institutions, 
and also advance/apply to the next stages of their graduate careers.

So in fact that piece of paper is extremely valuable for the students.

-jeff



On 2015-03-09 12:01 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> 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
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> 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/
>