[foss4g2014] On Travel Grants/Scholarships

[Chris MacWhorter]

Make sense to me, OS conference probably isn't something people would scam to get in.  my thoughts were based on contacting bloggers whom about half are international and as a geographer I wonder if they view us as minorities (especially in OSM world)

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On Mar 27, 2014, at 9:02 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org> wrote:

>> I'm for expanding the bounding box, but some thoughts on the diversification; easy to distinguish women/men with checkbox (by international names on list, maybe not so), then definition of minorities at a international conference is what exactly….  
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> I’m OK with a box that says “50% of our funds are dedicated to women/minorities. Do you qualify under that criteria?” I don’t mind letting people self-define, and I don’t think we need to ask people to be super-specific about how they qualify.
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