<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The competition below may be of interest to some OSGeo development teams. -- Charlie Schweik<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Flora Kang</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ossawards@gmail.com">ossawards@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:48 PM<br>Subject: Dear Professor Schweik,<br>To: <a href="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu">cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu</a><br><br><br><font face="굴림" size="3">
</font><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">My name is Sohee Kang. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">I’m in charge of attracting participants to the Korean
government's Ministry of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">Science, ICT & Future Planning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">'s Open Source Software World Challenge 201</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">. </span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">This is the 7<sup>th</sup> competition. <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">USD $</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">31,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">000 in total will be awarded to winners in the international division of this open source software competition.</span></span></font></div>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">I’m really sorry for bothering
you, but we would feel highly honored to have </span></font><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">your students as participants.</font></span></p><font face="굴림" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">International participants are exclusively allowed to submit
any open source software developed within one year, even if they got a prize
from another competition with it. In addition, even projects over one year old
will be accepted by our judging panel as well, if it has been significantly
improved recently.</font></span></b></p><font face="굴림" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">Please visit our website</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"><span> </span><a href="http://www.ossaward.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">www.ossaward.org</font></a>.</span></font></p>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">Our registration deadline is </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">August 4<sup>th</sup></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">.</span></font></p>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">The final submission deadline
is </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">October
6<sup>th</sup></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">.</span></font></p><font face="굴림" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">I hope you encourage your
students to participate. I’m quite sure that this will be a great opportunity
for them. Every team that submits its completed project will get an official
certificate issued by NIPA of Korea. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">They</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"> have
only to submit project document, source</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">code and demo video in English, or </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">provide the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">project URL including all.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"> We’ll wire the award money to the
winners. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"></span></font></p><font face="굴림" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">If you have any questions or
need more information, please contact me at </span></font><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"><a href="mailto:ossawards@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman">ossawards@gmail.com</font></a><font face="Times New Roman"> .</font></span></p>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Your help would be greatly
appreciated.</font></span></p><font face="굴림" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Best regards,</font></span></p><font face="굴림" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Sohee Kang</font></span></p><font face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">‘Open Source Software World
Challenge 201</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">’ Secretariat</span></font></p><font face="굴림" size="3">
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</div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Charlie Schweik<br><br>Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<br>Department of Environmental Conservation - <a href="http://eco.umass.edu" target="_blank">http://eco.umass.edu</a><br>
Center for Public Policy and Administration - <a href="http://masspolicy.org" target="_blank">http://masspolicy.org</a><br>Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government - <a href="http://ncdg.org" target="_blank">http://ncdg.org</a><br>
Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see <a href="http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545</a><br>Outsmart Invasive Species project: <a href="http://masswoods.net/outsmart" target="_blank">http://masswoods.net/outsmart</a>
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