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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

I agree with Daniel's point about "Geo4All Challenge 2016".
The Geo4All would need to set up a awards committee to
conduct the award selection and presentation process.

If there is going to be a cash award, Geo4All also need
to find the money.

My understanding is that, the other OSGeo Student Award
is sponsored (funded) by OSGeo Foundation.

Best

Venka

On 2015/10/01 22:41, Jeff McKenna 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
>
>
>
> On 2015-09-30 8:13 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
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>> Hi Suchith,
>>
>> 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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