[Board] [OpenGeoscience] OSGeo at OGRS 2018 request for funding

[María Arias de Reyna]

Hi,

Were you reading my mind? :) I was writing this on the next board meeting page:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-07-05

On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 8:58 PM, Massimiliano Cannata
<massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:
> Dear all,
> OGRS (open geospatial research and education symposium) conference will be
> held in Lugano in October 2018 (http://2018.ogrs-community.org) and is
> focused on open source, open education and open science on geospatial
> sector.
>
> The open geoscience committee agrees to use 500 € from its allocated budget
> for an OSGeo Open Geoscience prize.
>
> I would like also to ask OSGeo to sponsor one drink at the ice breaker party
> and have one booth to promote OSGeo within this community, the maximum cost
> should be 1000 usd.
>
> I will personally manage the booth.
>
> Thanks for your consideration and feedback.
>
> Maxi
>
> Il 28 mag 2018 15:33, "Jeff McKenna" <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> ha
> scritto:
>
> Maybe the "unforenseen costs" in the budget can be used for this award;
> so the prize could be 500 USD instead?
>
> My logic is that otherwise, 1000 USD eats up a lot of the budget.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> On 2018-05-25 12:13 PM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
>> Dear Open geoscience Community of OSGeo, I'd like to ask you to access
>> 1000 usd as part of the committee budget for an Open Science award in
>> the geospatial field for young scientists.
>>
>> The award will be assigned during the OGRS conference
>> (http://2018.ogrs-community.org) had in Lugano in October where the
>> conference  motto is "open science in action".
>>
>>
>> Please let me know your feedback.
>>
>> Best
>> Maxi
>>
>>
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