[Fundraising] A.W. Mellon Foundation funding

[Ari Jolma]

I guess we at the education committee would be interested in this. Exactly what
the project would do is, however, not immediately clear for me. They have a long
list of criteria, one of them is about financing the second version of an
existing system. At the iEMSs conference I was quite impressed what the
MapWindow-EPA project has achieved in linking online geodata to task
descriptions and to MapWindow. That looked very educational, i.e., something
that would be useful in classroom, to me. There is definitely a need for free
and open systems especially in online education, it is always a problem whether
students offcampus have access to certain proprietary products.

Ari

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:27:14 -0700 Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi all,
> At OSCON, staff from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation talked to  
> volunteers at the OSGeo booth.  They indicated that that we could  
> apply for research funding.  Their program [1] and criteria [2] could  
> easily fit with one of our projects - in particular, the education  
> and geodata projects.  But likely also in software projects that  
> could be, for example, adapted into more of an educational context.   
> That is based on my assumptions reading their documents.
> 
> I will try to get more information from someone who was at OSCON and  
> met the foundation reps (I was already corresponding with one of  
> them).  But in the meantime, I want to pass it over to the  
> fundraising committee to consider.
> 
> Is this something you can or likely will pursue?
> 
> Tyler
> 
> [1] http://rit.mellon.org/
> [2] http://rit.mellon.org/criteria
> 

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Prof. Ari Jolma
Kartografia ja Geoinformatiikka / Cartography and Geoinformatics
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology
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Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma