[Board] OSGeo Student awards for FOSS4G Seoul

[Jeff McKenna]

Some background on this: I've been strongly asking the GeoForAll gang to 
manage these awards all themselves.  FOSS4G-Como was a learning 
experience in that there was no prep done for the "OSGeo Award" (no 
certificate/plaque, treasurer was not informed, what followed was 1.5 
months of back and forth emails from confused recipients to myself). 
Since then twice I have asked the GeoForAll to manage this award 
(created by them) fully themselves, and starting with FOSS4G-Seoul. 
Today I read Suchith's message saying for all local committees to manage 
the OSGeo Award - this is exactly not what I was requesting/saying. 
Local committees have enough on their plate, running each conference, 
this award must be managed entirely by GeoForAll (GeoForAll gang should 
contact OSGeo treasurer, print certificates/awards, arrange who to 
present award, ask local committee for timeslot, makes sure payment is 
received, publishes news).  Technically such a requirement would have to 
be approved by the OSGeo Conference Committee anyway, and likely added 
to the hosting RFP; but that shouldn't happen in my mind as this award 
should be managed entirely by the GeoForAll group.

As background, I manage the Sol Katz award each year, now in its 11th 
year, so I know the effort involved.

Suchith, please take this to the GeoForAll group and make changes to 
your plans accordingly.  And sorry for my strong message.

Thanks,

-jeff




On 2015-09-08 6:03 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> Dear Mike,
>
> On behalf of the Geo4All community, i would like to formally email and
> request you to take steps to allocate 1000 USD for OSGeo Student Awards
> to the FOSS4G 2015 Seoul LOC. As you might remember OSGeo Board had
> approved our request for OSGeo Student awards at the main FOSS4G
> conference and regional FOSS4G conferences (Europe, Asia, N.America).
> The LOC's will be responsible  for making local arrangements for the
> student competitions etc and the chair of LOC should send a summary
> report to the OSGeo Board after the event. After one year based on
> feedbacks from Board, LOCs, Students , Community etc and lessons learnt
> we will aim to modify/expand this initiative for the future.
>
> Sanghee Shin as the chair of LOC (cc in) will be the main contact for
> the FOSS4G 2015 OSGeo Student Awards. He will inform you details of the
> winning students, how to distribute the award money etc.
>
> Sanghee - please coordinate with Mike directly and make arrangements for
> the student awards. Thanks to you and the LOC for your efforts on this.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>