[FOSS4G2016] "Geo4All - MapStory Challenge" - FOSS4G 2016 Student Competitions

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2015/10/01 22:45, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> I also did not see the whole discussion, since foss4g2016 got included late in the game, so apologies if this has been discussed before.
>
> There was a Geocat student award in Seoul or not, since Geocat sponsored it.

GeoCat sponsored "FOSS4G Developer Award" [1] was an open award not 
restricted to students.

Venka

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/node/1627

>
> What’s wrong with companies / not-for-profits sponsoring specific student awards if they pay extra sponsorship money for it? If they sponsor, I don’t see a problem with their name ending up in the award / competition.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
>> On 01 Oct 2015, at 15:41, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
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>>
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>> 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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