[foss4g2014] Scholarships

[Matt Sayler]

Lyzi helped put one together for nw gis. I think it was pretty much just a
short essay w/online submissions.
On Feb 5, 2014 4:35 PM, "Chris MacWhorter" <cmacwhorter at gmail.com> wrote:

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