[Board] OSGeo Student awards for FOSS4G Seoul

[Steven Feldman]

A big +1000 to Jeff’s comments

The LOC at a FOSS4G cannot be expected to give thought to the student award or any other award, it must be completely administered by the award committee - in this case Geo4All
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Steven


> On 8 Sep 2015, at 13:01, board-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
> 
> From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
> Subject: Re: [Board] OSGeo Student awards for FOSS4G Seoul
> Date: 8 September 2015 12:36:29 BST
> To: Suchith Anand <suchith_anand at yahoo.com <mailto:suchith_anand at yahoo.com>>, "board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>" <board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>>
> Cc: "shshin at gaia3d.com <mailto:shshin at gaia3d.com>" <shshin at gaia3d.com <mailto:shshin at gaia3d.com>>
> 
> 
> 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.
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> As background, I manage the Sol Katz award each year, now in its 11th year, so I know the effort involved.
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> Suchith, please take this to the GeoForAll group and make changes to your plans accordingly.  And sorry for my strong message.
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> Thanks,
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> -jeff
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> 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
>> 

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