[FOSS4G2016] "Geo4All - MapStory Challenge" - FOSS4G 2016 Student Competitions
Jeff McKenna
jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Thu Oct 1 06:41:33 PDT 2015
In fact Daniel that was my very first response to Suchith, about 50
emails ago. If you can champion that, work with Suchith to explain,
that would be very helpful.
-jeff
On 2015-09-30 8:13 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
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> Hi Suchith,
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> Probably I didn't get the whole story, so sorry if it was said before.
> I'm wondering why this award should have "MapStory" in the name. It
> will be an award for students, so one requirement will be, that only
> students can participate. But if you name it "Geo4All - MapStory
> Challenge" everybody will understand that you must use MapStory.
>
> You wouldn't call it the next year "Geo4All - PostGIS Challenge" for
> instance, would you? Even if it had an OSGeo project in the name it
> would be discriminating against others.
>
> So I understand Jeff's point. And I think there is a really simple
> solution by just naming it "Geo4All Challenge 2016" without
> highlighting any particular project and leave this up to the students
> to be creative. Nobody wants to exclude MapStory from being used in
> the challenge. It's just about the naming of the challenge.
>
> Best,
> Daniel
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