[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Student Awards - please join the maillist and contribute your ideas

[Jeff McKenna]

I agree Suchith; I also want to thank Arnulf for leading that initial 
push and contact with Georg/ICA.  These awards can be traced back to 
that too.

-jeff



On 2015-05-05 3:51 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> Thanks Jeff. It is also great opportunity to further ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS collaborations for the future.
>
> Suchith
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> It would be my pleasure to help give out the award with Georg and Dr
> Chen at FOSS4G Como (I think I committed to this offlist to Suchith before).
>
> I've joined the awards list.
>
> -jeff
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> On 2015-05-05 3:12 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
>> Many thanks Suchith and the Board. I wonder if the OSGeo President wants to award the prize to students during the Conference. I know that also George Gartner and Chen Jun will be in Como and therefore they can award the two prizes given by their Associations.
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>> We will have info about the three winning teams a the beginning of June and the classification the last day of the Conference.
>> Patrick is the Chair of the NASA WW Challenge. Please Patrick would you like to add something?
>> Best.
>> Maria
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>> Inviato: martedì 5 maggio 2015 19.34
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>> Hi All,
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>> Thanks to the OSGeo Board for support for the Student Awards [1] at FOSS4G conferences.
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>> So it is now time for us to take actions for the next steps to get this started . It is important that we build strong foundations for this for expanding this for the future.
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>> 1. It is important that we start the discussions in an open mailling list specifically for this, so that all ideas are saved for future conference organisors and award committees. So may i request all chairs of FOSS4G conferences and  also wider community members who have interest in the Student awards initiative to subscribe and join the mailling list at http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-awards
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>> 2. I request the chairs of FOSS4G-Europe 2015 (Maria) http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015  and FOSS4G 2015 Seoul (Sanghee) http://2015.foss4g.org/ to inform updates on the student awards planned at their events and get in touch with the OSGeo Treasurer for the $1000 USD allocation
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>> All- please give your ideas/suggestions to make this Student Award program a great success.Thanks.
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>> Suchith
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>> [1]  http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-April/001484.html
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