[foss4g2014] Scholarships

[Chris MacWhorter]

My two cents on matter; feel free to say yeah or nay.  There has been some talk (I think) about bringing in 'users' or 'traditional commercial' into the open source community.  One idea would be the timber or fishing industries as sponsors ( note: I not claiming to know anyone) but since these are typically lawyers/lobbyists that handle these things.  Since sponsors get a spot at conference; we can let 'choose' to let them donate to a pool of promising college (OSU, PSU, UO) students.  Any thoughts on matter?  I'm willing to write some letters to the timber industrial if the collective thinks this a good idea.  (Again no experience in this matter, but OSU is top ranked in forest science and oceanography)  -Chris MacWhorter

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> On Feb 5, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org> wrote:
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> One thing I've seen come up recently is discussion of providing scholarships to worthy folks who may not be able to otherwise attend.
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> I'd like to explore the idea some, but I'm not really sure what  a program would look like.
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> Any thoughts (or resources)?
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> Darrell
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