[foss4g2014] Scholarships

[David William Bitner]

For FOSS4GNA we got a lot of folks asking us why we didn't have student
scholarships or discounts after we had already set the budget and our
ticket prices. Given the fixed budget, the compromise that we worked out
was to reserve some of the *budgeted for* free volunteer slots for students
with the requirement that those students would also need to act as session
moderators, registration desk help etc. We were able to add a couple
additional student slots through some sponsor funds/spots. Students were
required to fill out a form and were semi-randomly chosen (we round-robined
schools so we didn't bring in just students from one school).

Whatever you do -- budget for it before setting your prices. Don't just do
it ad hoc.


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:44 AM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>wrote:

> For FOSS4G NA 2013, we had interested students apply and then had a random
> drawing for selection (with a limit of one student per institution).  As
> part of the scholarship, the students were expected to do help with tasks
> at the conference.
>
> If I remember correctly, some of these spots were funded out of the main
> budget and some others were added through the donation of spots by
> sponsors. Len Kne ran it.  I can get additional information if you need it.
>
> The info page is still up:  http://foss4g-na.org/student-opportunities/
>
> David.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Jacob Greer <jacobmgreer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OSCON does various scholarship programs through sponsors (for example
>> Github sponsored "women and minorities who are passionate about open
>> source"). http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/content/scholarships
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 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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>> *Jacob Greer *
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