[Board] [Marketing] Fwd: Request for funding for Early Career Researcher support for GISRUK 2023

Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 14:04:41 PDT 2023


Hi Nick,

A reminder has been sent through Loomio.

On 4/11/23 20:27, Nick Bearman via Board wrote:
> Hi Board,
>
> I understand a motion on this has been added to 
> https://www.loomio.com/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board. Thanks to everyone who 
> has voted.
>
> I am being pressed by GISRUK for a decision and payment by 13th April, 
> as the conference starts on next week on the 18th! Please could we 
> progress a decision on this soon.
>
> Best wishes,
> Nick.
>
> On 3/23/23 10:24, Nick Bearman via Board wrote:
>>
>> Hi Adam, everyone,
>>
>> Thanks for the note about the agenda - I have spotted it now. I'm 
>> still working out the processes, so apologies if I missed checking 
>> something before sending the email.
>>
>> I will be the first to admit the academic sector is not perfect - far 
>> from it. (If you know of a perfect working environment, let me 
>> know!). The current series of UCU strikes in the UK academic sector 
>> being a prime example of this. In fact, I have left academia and am 
>> now working as a freelance consultant. (I will happily share my 
>> experiences with anyone who is interested!)
>>
>> As I am sure you have seen, we use the term ECR to define as anyone 
>> in a precarious employment position: "masters students, PhD students 
>> or post-docs (prior to getting a permanent lectureship position, i.e. 
>> tenure)". Approx 15 years ago we used the term "Young Researchers" 
>> instead, but this was quite rightly replaced with ECRs, as the term 
>> "young" discriminates against those who have had a career break, or 
>> who have joined academia later in their careers.
>>
>> I'd happily replace ECR with "ECRs / precarious research workers" or 
>> even "precarious research workers" if you wish.
>>
>> Clearly we need to and want to restrict the support to those not in 
>> permanent employment, as a significant proportion/all of those people 
>> are privileged (depending how you define privileged) so if you have 
>> some alternative wording, please do suggest this!
>>
>> I'm not sure whether I will be able to make it to the board meeting 
>> or not, but if I can I will.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Nick.
>>
>> On 22/03/2023 20:09, Adam Steer wrote:
>>> Hi Nick, all
>>>
>>> This is on the agenda for the next board meeting (28/3).
>>>
>>> I need to be very blunt about my own opinion on this: I've just 
>>> spent 2.5 years seeing and experiencing "ECR" used as a tool to 
>>> gaslight and punch down on precarious research workers. I'm 
>>> personally happy if I never hear or see the term again, because it's 
>>> just another way to enshrine existing privilege in the academic 
>>> system and extend the current broken philosophy of how academia works.
>>>
>>> Remove the EC part and things look much better ;)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> https://iamadamsteer.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 02:52 Nick Bearman 
>>> <nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hello Board and Marketing,
>>>
>>>     How are we progressing with a decision on this?
>>>
>>>     The GISRUK conference is soon (18th - 23rd April 2023) so I would
>>>     like
>>>     to confirm whether you have ok'd the funding.
>>>
>>>      From the comments I've heard, it's sounding positive. GISRUK are
>>>     also
>>>     keen to show OSGeo's support, and have added the logo to their
>>>     website
>>>     already! https://gisruk.org/gisruk-2023/
>>>
>>>     If you need any more information, please ask me.
>>>
>>>     Best wishes,
>>>     Nick.
>>>
>>>     On 27/02/2023 10:04, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
>>>     > Hello board,
>>>     >
>>>     > I hope you are all fine.
>>>     >
>>>     > I forward this mail from Nick Bearman to the board.
>>>     >
>>>     > The GISRUK event is already listed at
>>>     https://www.osgeo.org/events/21631/
>>>     > Marketing committee will support with material.
>>>     >
>>>     > For the budget request we thought to ask the board to decide
>>>     about the
>>>     > financial support.
>>>     >
>>>     > I think Nicks goal to develop greater links between OSGeo:UK
>>>     and the
>>>     > academic community in the UK is great. So I would support the
>>>     support
>>>     > for the event.
>>>     >
>>>     > See you Astrid
>>>     >
>>>     > -------- Originalnachricht --------
>>>     > Betreff: [Marketing] Request for funding for Early Career
>>>     Researcher
>>>     > support for GISRUK 2023
>>>     > Datum: 27.01.2023 13:12
>>>     > Von: Nick Bearman <nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk>
>>>     > An: Marketing <marketing at lists.osgeo.org>
>>>     >
>>>     > Hello,
>>>     >
>>>     > As Chair of OSGeo:UK, I am trying to develop greater links 
>>> between
>>>     > OSGeo:UK and the academic community in the UK. I organised a very
>>>     > successful FOSS4G:UK Local 2022
>>>     > (https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2022local/) with approximately 300
>>>     > attendees across the UK. We managed some engagement with the UK
>>>     GIS
>>>     > academic community (two venues out of nine being hosting by
>>>     > universities and 16 respondents out of the 108 who responded to
>>>     the
>>>     > survey identifying as students or academics). However, I think
>>>     we can
>>>     > do more with the academic community in the UK, and I think they
>>>     could
>>>     > be a great source of people and contributions to OSGeo (global 
>>> and
>>>     > local) and open source projects more generally.
>>>     >
>>>     > The annual Geographical Information Science Research UK (GISRUK)
>>>     > conference is happening in Glasgow, UK on 18th - 23rd April 2023
>>>     > (https://gisruk.org/gisruk-2023/) and strongly supports ECRs
>>>     (Early
>>>     > Career Researchers). ECRs are typically masters students, PhD
>>>     students
>>>     > or post-docs (prior to getting a permanent lectureship
>>>     position, i.e.
>>>     > tenure). GISRUK run a series of workshops and sessions for ECRs
>>>     and I
>>>     > would like OSGeo to sponsor one or more of these. Typically 
>>> GISRUK
>>>     > attracts around 100-150 participants, and usually ~50 of these
>>>     are ECRs.
>>>     >
>>>     > I am asking for US$750 (~GBP£606) to support this. I would
>>>     suggest we
>>>     > use this to sponsor an ECR evening session (e.g. pizza or
>>>     similar).
>>>     > This usually takes place at the beginning of the conference,  to
>>>     > facilitate their networking and integration into the wider
>>>     conference.
>>>     > Any surplus could also be used to support ECR scholarships, which
>>>     > would pay for the registration fee for any ECRs who do not have
>>>     > funding from their university to attend the conference.
>>>     >
>>>     > I appreciate I am not being very specific yet, but I think
>>>     there is
>>>     > scope for some negotiation with the GISRUK organisers. 
>>> Attached is
>>>     > their 'standard' information for sponsors, but I think we could
>>>     > probably get a stand, session sponsorship and maybe some
>>>     scholarships
>>>     > with the $750.
>>>     >
>>>     > In terms of support from the marketing committee, I already 
>>> have a
>>>     > role up banner from the code-sprint (thanks Astrid!) and a few
>>>     left
>>>     > over stickers and print outs from FOSS4G & FOSS4G:UK. I think 
>>> some
>>>     > OSGeo:UK stickers would be good (OSGeo:UK can pay for those)
>>>     and I am
>>>     > open to suggestions as to what else might be good. I suspect
>>>     stickers
>>>     > would go down well with this audience.
>>>     >
>>>     > For full openness, I am on the GISRUK National Steering 
>>> Committee,
>>>     > with responsibility for ECRs (Business). We also have a ECR
>>>     (Academic)
>>>     > rep, James Haworth. I am also Treasurer of the RGS-IBG GISc
>>>     Research
>>>     > Group, who are contributing to the scholarships as well.
>>>     >
>>>     > I hope this covers my request in enough detail. If you have any
>>>     > questions, please do ask!
>>>     >
>>>     > Best wishes,
>>>     > Nick.
>>>     >
>>>     >
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>>>
>>>     --     Nick Bearman
>>>     +44 (0)7717745715
>>>     nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Nick Bearman
>> +44 (0)7717745715
>> nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
>>
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