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

[Daniel Kastl]

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Hi Bart,

I think every conference sponsorship prospectus offers the sponsorship
of certain events, so a company could pay for the lunch of a code
sprint, etc..

The Geocat developer award was maybe a very smart way of marketing,
but it didn't exclude any project.
But if you take for example the "Nasa World Wind Challenge", then I
would assume that to participate I need to make use of this software,
and that's the issue some have with the Geo4all challenge if it's
named after a project.

Maybe it's worth to think about, if an award or event needs to have
the sponsors name be a part of the title. I wouldn't be so excited
about a FOSS4G where we have the "Google Gala Dinner", an "ESRI Ice
Breaker" or a whatever else you can think of, especially if the
sponsorship amount is relatively low.

But I'm not against sponsors and awards!

Daniel



On 01/10/15 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.
> 
> 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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