[Board] [Geo4All] GeoForAll Budget 2018

[Jody Garnett]

Given the large number of website ideas and requirements that came from the
GeoForAll mailing list ... GeoForAll may wish to aside some budget for
improvements and forms/workflow.
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 9:16 AM Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Suchith,
>
> thanks for the official request - I have added it to the draft OSGeo
> budget proposal
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2018
>
> Helena
>
>
> On Nov 22, 2017, at 8:43 AM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Board,
>
> On behalf of GeoForAll, I wish to submit the budget for 2018 for your
> consideration.
>
> GeoForAll’s focus is on education and we have been working to enable
> geoeducation opportunities for all. Esp. in developing countries we now are
> seeing real progress being made. We see students not just as future of
> OSGeo but current leaders of OSGeo.
>
> FOSS4G conferences have been a great vehicle to reach out to all
> communities and we have been using this to provide more participation for
> students to present their ideas to the world. Students are also
> contributing hugely to the various OSGeo software projects. We have been
> discussing many ideas on how we can enable more participation of students
> and also provide recognition to their contributions. The Student Awards at
> FOSS4G conferences are the right instrument to enable this.
>
> Based on this, I am proposing the following for GeoForAll budget 2018
>
> GeoForAll Student awards for FOSS4G events will be 500 USD per event (both
> local and global). Distributed as follows
> First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD
>
> We will arrange for max. 4 FOSS4G events to be supported for student
> awards per year (these will be FOSS4G regional events or other events like
> gvSIG conference etc which have a dedicated Open source Geo Track and LOC
> willing to run the award event. This will help us provide more global
> distribution for supporting student excellence.
>
> The main deliverable for any LOC wishing to take up this is to ensure
> there is an LOC contact responsible for running the student awards  with
> criteria setup etc and award ceremony done at the closing ceremony and
> awards given to winners.
>
> Total budget  - 2000 USD
>
> As 2018 FOSS4G Global event is happening in Africa, it is a great
> opportunity for widening participation for more students in Africa, so I am
> also requesting OSGeo Board to consider some of the ideas generated in the
> discussions for enabling more student participation  [1]  and plan
> appropriately. There is no need to rush into any decision, but I request
> that there is discussions take place.
>
> We had some online discussion on ideas for this [1]  and  Mark Iliffe
> (Chair of FOSS4G 2018) has  volunteered to administer (on behalf of LOC
> Dar)  directly the $2k from the OSGeo board for this . We need to be
> careful not to do anything that undermines the Travel Grant program
> structures that are already  in place . I will hope that Mark and LOC will
> send a detailed plan for this later on their ideas and then Board can
> decide as appropriate.
>
> I believe having FOSS4G in Africa in 2018, is a great opportunity esp. for
> the students in local universities there to ever get the opportunity to be
> at a  Global FOSS4G event and learn new ideas to help them develop.  This
> $2k can be used to support providing free registration  to eligible
> students in local universities will help them attend and help maximum
> impact for more students.
>
> I thank everyone for your inputs and I now leave this to the community and
> Board to discuss and take forward as appropriate.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2017-November/004310.html
>
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> Helena Mitasova
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