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

Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 10:00:34 PDT 2023


Hi,

Motion has just passed on Loomio.
https://www.loomio.com/p/ANgf8nBd/motion-to-approve-750-for-supporting-gisruk-2023

I am sorry we missed the deadline.

Best,
Angelos

On 4/14/23 00:04, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> 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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>>>>     to respond outside of your own working pattern.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Nick Bearman
>>> +44 (0)7717745715
>>> nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
>>>
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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