[OSGeo-Edu] OSGEO edu folks -- An important favor!! Please consider doing this ASAP - it would help our group!

[Charlie Schweik]

Dear OSGeo edu members,

I've spent some time over the last week writing up a summary of our 
efforts for a Mellon Foundation grant. What I am trying to do is secure 
funds for the next year or two *to fund someone to help move us to a 
system that supports the creation of new derivatives of OSGeo 
educational content, or to help our group move forward generally. If I 
get the funds I will solicit ideas on how we use this "employee" to move 
our group forward*. In order to do this, I had to "self-nominate" my 
institution. To meet their requirements, I had to emphasize that what we 
are doing is helping two of their key constituents: (1) nature 
conservation and (2) higher education. The program closes TOMORROW, May 
15th.

*I would appreciate greatly you going the the below website where I have 
posted a self-nomination, and add any comments in support of this that 
you can*, especially if you represent some part of the world that has 
not commented. An emphasis on my leadership to this group would help 
probably too.

One limitation was that we don't have good metrics of the use of our 
educational material. It would be great if some of you from different 
parts of the world could emphasize the utility and impact of our 
educational inventory and our efforts to co-develop educational material.

PLEASE VISIT

*http://matc.mellon.org/nominate/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/the-osgeo-global-education-and-curriculum-project/nomination_view*

AND ADD A COMMENT IN SUPPORT OF THIS PROJECT!

You need to do this by the end of May 15th, 2008 (today or tomorrow 
depending on where you are!).

Thank you in advance!

Charlie Schweik
Chair, OSGeo edu committee

P.S. I hope this doesn't appear to be self-serving. I am not at all 
trying to take credit for what we all have done as a team. But you have 
to nominate an institution and a university seemed to best match what 
they were looking for, and the grants are for leadership. I've been 
coordinating with Tyler Mitchell on this. It's a long shot, but your 
support would help to try and bring in funds for OUR FUTURE efforts.


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