[Board] OSGeo Student awards for FOSS4G Seoul

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Jeroen, indeed it seems to be a learning process.  I don't mean to 
stop the award, I hugely support thanking our students, but all I am 
saying is that it needs to be managed properly (as I mentioned there are 
many small tasks that need doing for each award).  I think it is easy to 
"+1" an award creation, but harder to take the time to do the small 
tasks.  I feel that GeoForAll could/should manage the award completely, 
as it is a student award.

If others disagree with me please speak up.  Maybe GeoForAll should take 
this topic to the OSGeo Conference Committee list, and they can decide 
how to handle?

-jeff



On 2015-09-08 8:42 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm confused now. I understood GeoCat sponsored the student award(s) and OSGEO sponsored academic awards targeted at professors etc involved in education. I think it doesn't make much sense to spend 1500€ from GeoCat on this at the moment since there is to much confusion IMHO.
> Thanks,
> Jeroen
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>> Op 8 sep. 2015 om 20:36 heeft Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>> 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
>>