[Ica-osgeo-labs] Scholarships

[Ivana Ivánová]

Hello everyone,

I agree with Jeff's idea to stimulate students (and their professors) promoting OSGeo in their research and I also see why even a small scholarship could be challenging for institutions to administer.
How about an idea of sponsoring students' trip to an event where they plan to present their research done in their OSGeo lab? For instance (and I'm not sure if this already exists) ICA, ISPRS and OSGeo could at least waive the registration fee at their events for such students, or even sponsor their trip with more money (something like ICA's travel award).

Regards,
Ivana Ivánová
prof at FCT/UNESP, SP - Brazil

----- Mensagem original -----
De: "Alex Mandel" <aimandel at ucdavis.edu>
Para: "Jeff McKenna" <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>, ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 20 de agosto de 2014 18:01:58
Assunto: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Scholarships

On 08/20/2014 01:53 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I saw a news item[1] that made me wonder if we (Geo for All) could
> create scholarships for students; is it a far stretched dream to imagine
> one scholarship (a one-time payment, plus a plaque) to a single graduate
> student at each of our ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs around the world each year?
>  The award would be given to a student who promotes Open Geospatial in
> their education and research, and would be done in the name of the
> supporting organizations (ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo).
> 
> What do you think?  Or has this topic been discussed already?
> 
The idea is reasonable, but generally the process would need to be
discussed and a fund created in order to provide the scholarship. Note,
that small scholarships are not always worth the time and effort for
students to apply. Usually students apply and a board votes on the
distribution of funds based on some criteria. Rarely do they come with a
plaque.

For example my friend got a $1000 scholarship once with a requirement to
present findings at the yearly conference. Traveling and attending the
conference would have cost more than the $1000.

> Could this in fact be made into a 'requirement' for becoming an
> ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab?
> 
That would be a burden that excludes many of our existing labs,
especially the ones that aren't at research/educational institutions.

> -jeff
> 

The funding should come from outside sources not the Institutions (who
probably can't allocate money that want anyways). Ideally a fund could
be set up by OSGeo, take donations into the fund specifically and then
the interest from the fund could be used to provide the scholarship on a
yearly basis. Thats the only reasonably sustainable way to to do it.

I'd say the role of the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab in this is to govern (supply
professors who read and decide on the allocation) and encourage the
applications of students.

Thanks,
-- 
Alex Mandel

Geography Graduate Group
http://ggg.ucdavis.edu
Information Center for the Environment (ICE)
http://ice.ucdavis.edu
University of California, Davis
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