[Board] Fwd: [Marketing] Request for funding for Early Career Researcher support for GISRUK 2023
Astrid Emde (OSGeo)
astrid_emde at osgeo.org
Mon Feb 27 02:04:32 PST 2023
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
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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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