[Board] OSGeo Student awards for FOSS4G Seoul

[Steven Feldman]

Speaking as one voice in the conference committee (hopefully others will chip in)

IMO, we have this the wrong way round - it must be the Geo4All team who manage the whole process including setting up the award, publicising, evaluating and deciding, dealing with payments, certificates, press releases etc. 

The only things the LOC should need to do are:
Provide a time slot for the award ceremony if requested (say up to 10 minutes max)
Publish some content (if provided by Geo4All) on their website
Appoint a member of the LOC to liaise with the local Geo4All representative if she/he is not a member of the LOC

I don’t think that needs to become part of the RfP but if it’s needed those 3 lines should be enough. The Geo4All community can then evolve the award scheme as they gain experience without it impacting the organisers of our conferences who have an enormous range of things to worry about already.

On a side note could the board schedule an evaluation of the Student Awards scheme after say 12 months to determine what impacts it has had (number of applicants, outcomes, funds disbursed) and whether it should be extended (or reduced)?
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Steven


> On 8 Sep 2015, at 14:37, board-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
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> From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>>
> Subject: Re: [Board] OSGeo Student awards for FOSS4G Seoul
> Date: 8 September 2015 13:54:40 BST
> To: "conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>" <conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>>, "board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>" <board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>>, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>, "ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>" <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>>
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> Hi Jeff,
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> Maybe we can learn from your experience in running Sol Katz award over many years. Remember Sol Katz award is given only once an year. We want to make sure OSGeo Student Award opportunity is available for FOSS4G global and regional conferences (so at least 4 events per year and hopefully more as OSGeo expands to more regions , so it needs to be scalable )
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> Student Awards are NOT a requirement for FOSS4G RFP. It is an additional opportunity, if LOCs wish to increase student participation , then they  can use the (1k USD max funding per event) to get others to also sponsor awards for students.
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> I think what we need is a main contact for the Student Awards in each FOSS4G LOC who can effectively manage the OSGeo student award process (not the main LOC chair ). In fact, that will be a mandatory  requirement if any LOC (Global or Regional) wants to provide OSGeo Student Awards. There has to be hands on the ground at each FOSS4G event to make sure effective coordination.
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> As long as LOC manages the selection/process  and informs us in advance the selected student names, we can help manage the rest you suggested  from 2016 [ Contact OSGeo treasurer, print certificates/awards, arrange who to present award, ask local committee for timeslot, makes sure payment is received, publishes news.]
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> For FOSS4G Seoul , it is too late and i think it is best Sanghee and LOC arranges this as they decide best.
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> What i suggest is that for the future (from 2016 events)  we setup a  OSGeo Student Award Committee (volunteers welcome) to closely laise with the LOC contact for this.
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> Good idea to bring the conference committee into this, and we will welcome inputs (as many of them have more experience). So i request all to please help us with your expertise and help us put a strong system/process in place for OSGeo Student Awards in FOSS4G conferences from 2016.
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> Best wishes,
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> Suchith
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> ________________________________________
> From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> [board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] on behalf of Jeff McKenna [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 1:32 PM
> To: board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Board] OSGeo Student awards for FOSS4G Seoul
> 
> Instead of my single voice, I would think that bringing this topic to
> the OSGeo Conference Committee would be the smartest way forward (they
> manage all FOSS4G events).  Suchith can you submit your request to them
> directly[1]?  They may then add the award into the next RFP document.
> But please let them know your exact requirements (that each LOC must do
> A/B/C), that will help them understand fully. thanks!
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> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev>
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> -jeff
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