[OSGeo-Discuss] Updated GeoForAll budget 2018

Tue Nov 21 08:32:27 PST 2017

Hi Mark,

Thank you for your mail and volunteering to administer (on behalf of LOC Dar)  directly the $2k from the OSGeo board for this. I leave to the OSGeo Board to decide this as appropriate. Personally, I believe having FOSS4G in Africa in 2018, is a great opportunity esp. for the students in local universities there to ever get the opportunity to be a Global FOSS4G  and learn new ideas to help them develop.

I recently received an email from an educator in Uganda who said  “ It is crucially important for African students to interact with European professors. Books, journal articles etc., all come from Europe. Uganda for example has no single degree holding cartographer!” [1]. I believe FOSS4G Global coming to Africa is a great opportunity for many educators and students in Africa to meet directly colleagues from around the world and learn, so let us do our best to make this happen in whatever form which is best.

I really liked the idea that Maria  send earlier  today on having a separate track for students to present their work that FOSS4G-Europe is planning “FOSS4G-Europe we are considering asking for 1 000€ which will be split among 10 students awarded. This will mean the ticket cost to attend FOSS4G-Eu for them (100€).We intend to have a track for them so they can expose their work and not only have a poster and a mention.[2]

One option that  you and LOC  could consider is use the 2k specifically for arranging student track at FOSS4G 2018 and use the funding to cover registration fees of participating students . I am sure if we all think creatively, we can find a means to ensure more students get opportunity at FOSS4G and present their ideas.

FOSS4G is visiting Africa  in 2018 and we thank our hosts (local universities and many local colleagues there who are working hard to make it possible), so how can we as OSGeo give back something to the local community there. In my humble opinion, the best gift we can give is provide more opportunities to some of  students there to get opportunity to participate and give them a platform to share their ideas.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2017-November/004256.html

[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2017-November/004570.html

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From: Mark Iliffe <markiliffe at gmail.com>
Sent: 21 November 2017 2:36 PM
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org; conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Updated GeoForAll budget 2018

Dear Suchith,

Notwithstanding Till’s email regarding the separation of the TGP and GeoForAll, I would like to formally request that you reconsider the withdrawal of the $2k application to the OSGeo board. If necessary, the Dar LOC can administer directly the $2k from the OSGeo board - instead of the TGP.

For this - we’d request that GeoForAll supports the selection of the appropriate candidates in collaboration with the LOC. I feel that we have a real chance to make our conference accessible for all, let’s do it!

Many thanks,

Mark

On 21 Nov 2017, at 08:56, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:

Yes, Charlie’s idea is excellent and very strategic for future GeoForAll expansion ideas, so we are going to follow up this. My suggestion is that  we will do everything first to see if we can get volunteers with the required skillsets that we need for this work. If there are no volunteers for this, then we will decide to do open call . Thankfully , I am receiving some volunteer offers to my call on this from our excellent colleagues, so I am confident that we do not need to ask OSGeo Board for any funding at this stage for this work.

Based on feedbacks I received from discussions in the conference list, I have removed the 2k request for students TGP [1] . I understand that TGP committee is s run by members of LOC and OSGeo CC  and has clear  procedures in place. I am confident they will do their best to ensure representation of all deserving. I thank everyone in TGP committee for their time and efforts to make the travel grants program possible.

So currently the only one funding we will be asking is the Student Award for FOSS4G conferences . Having this distributed (500 USD) each to 4 FOSS4G events regionally is great. I already have FOSS4G-NA interested to  follow up on this. I really hope GeoforAll South America will make use of this for a FOSS4G event in South America .  Those FOSS4G LOC contacts wishing to take up this please email to the GeoForAll list and we will follow up.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2017-November/004572.html

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From: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy<mailto:sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy>>
Sent: 21 November 2017 1:03 PM
To: Suchith Anand; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>; discuss at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss at lists.osgeo.org>; conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: RE: Updated GeoForAll budget 2018

What about what Charlie suggested? Regarding a way to make possible 2-4 concrete multi-GeoForAll lab educational content collaborations? In the GeoFolrAll iberoamerica network there are many labs that will be very interested in these kind of collaborations...

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
(598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/

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De: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> en nombre de Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>>
Enviado: lunes, 20 de noviembre de 2017 15:59
Para: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>; discuss at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss at lists.osgeo.org>; conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>
Asunto: [Geo4All] Updated GeoForAll budget 2018

Dear all,

Thank you for everyone for providing inputs/feedbacks. Based on this, I am proposing the following for GeoForAll budget 2018

GeoForAll Student awards for FOSS4G events will be 500 USD per event (both local and global). Distributed as follows
First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD

We will arrange for max. 4 FOSS4G events to be supported for student awards per year (these will be FOSS4G regional events or other events like gvSIG conference etc which have a dedicated Open source Geo Track and LOC willing to run the award event. This will help us provide more global distribution for supporting student excellence.

The main deliverable for any LOC wishing to take up this is to ensure there is an LOC contact responsible for running the student awards  with criteria setup etc and award ceremony done at the closing ceremony and awards given to winners.

Total budget  - 2000 USD

As 2018 FOSS4G Global event is happening in Africa, it is a great opportunity for widening participation for more students in Africa, so I am also requesting OSGeo Board to consider allocating 2k USD specifically to support more student participation through the Travel Grant Program if  the Board thinks it is appropriate.

Please let me know any changes/modifications needed by 22nd Nov 2017 .

Best wishes,

Suchith

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