[Ica-osgeo-labs] [Board] Student Award initiative

Thu Apr 16 02:13:36 PDT 2015

On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 18:01:48 +0100
Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Anne,
> 
> May i request if you can present and answer and queries on the
> student award initiative at the Board meeting on 9th April. I really
> hope action will be taken so we can make it happen for this year
> itself starting with FOSS4G-Europe 2015 Como and FOSS4G 2015 Seoul.
> Thanks.

Hello all,

during last Board meeting we approved the funding for OSGeo Student
Awards:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-04-09#Minutes

Best regards,
Anne

> 
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
> [Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 3:12 PM
> To: Jeff McKenna; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re:
> [Ica-osgeo-labs] [Board] Student Award initiative
> 
> Hi Jeff, Thank you for adding this item for the next OSGeo Board
> meeting in April 9th.
> 
> All- are any of you able to attend at 15.00 UTC through IRC for the
> OSGeo Board meeting scheduled for the 9th of April 2015 and input
> ideas/answer on any specific queries on this topic. If so, please let
> Jeff know. Thanks.
> 
> Suchith
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
> On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com] Sent:
> Monday, March 23, 2015 1:50 PM To: board at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Board] Student Award initiative
> 
> Hi Suchith,
> 
> I've added this topic as a priority item for the next OSGeo Board
> meeting, on 9 April [1].  Please do make sure to have someone else
> from GeoForAll present at this virtual meeting.
> 
> I also updated the award wiki page [2] with this requested 4k amount.
> 
> Thanks again for pushing so hard for these student awards.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-04-09
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Ica-osgeo-isprs_award
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> --
> Jeff McKenna
> President, OSGeo
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
> 
> 
> 
> On 2015-03-23 10:07 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> > Jeff, Board,
> >
> > May i request that you consider the proposal for initiating OSGeo
> > Student Awards for FOSS4G conferences (FOSS4G Global, FOSS4G-NA,
> > FOSS4G-Europe and FOSS4G-Asia ) and consider this at the next Board
> > meeting and taken forward please. Total cost requested is 4K USD
> > (1K USD for each event - to be directly send by the OSGeo Treasurer
> > to the Chair of the LOC).
> >
> > The LOC will be responsible to making local arrangements for the
> > student competitions etc and the chair of LOC will send a summary
> > report to the OSGeo Board after the event. After one year based on
> > feedbacks from Board, LOCs, Students , Community etc and lessons
> > learnt we will aim to modify/expand this initiative for the future.
> >
> > The LOC will also ensure certificates are given to all the student
> > winners of the various competitions arranged so that the students
> > can add to the CVs etc for their future career development.
> >
> > Please note that as i will on lot of travels etc next month
> > (April), i will request one of our colleagues in "Geo for All" to
> > follow this at the Board meeting so it is not delayed/
> > forgotten :-)  Thanks.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Suchith
> > ________________________________________
> > From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
> > On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com] Sent:
> > Monday, March 09, 2015 3:13 PM To: board at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: Re: [Board] Student Award initiative
> >
> > But what I was told by the recipients at FOSS4G-Asia, is that these
> > certificates/awards are much more than a 'moral boost'; they use
> > these certificates to justify/apply for more funding at their
> > institutions, and also advance/apply to the next stages of their
> > graduate careers.
> >
> > So in fact that piece of paper is extremely valuable for the
> > students.
> >
> > -jeff
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2015-03-09 12:01 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> >> Venka - great to hear about FOSS4G-Asia team giving
> >> certificate/awards for  young researchers.
> >>
> >> Definitely certificates acknowledging the students contribution
> >> is  a great moral boost for the students. This recognition is much
> >> much bigger than the monetary award.
> >>
> >> It will also help other LOCs who are planning to give Student
> >> Awards to learn from your experiences.
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >> Suchith
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________________
> >> From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> >> [board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
> >> [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 12:44
> >> PM To: board at lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Board] Student Award
> >> initiative
> >>
> >> I want to second Venka's message, that the certificates/awards
> >> that he and his FOSS4G-Asia team implemented, were very
> >> effective.  Kazeem Owolabi (best use case award) spoke to me
> >> directly at how he would use this certificate/award to further his
> >> work.
> >>
> >> -jeff
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2015-03-08 9:31 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> >>> On 2015/03/09 4:46, Suchith Anand wrote:
> >>>> Sure :-) Am i right in thinking that as this year as we have the
> >>>> FOSS4G Global in Asia (Seoul), it will be FOSS4G-Asia in 2017
> >>>> that we will be focussing for this.
> >>> Yes, since FOSS4G-2015 is already in Asia and a special Asia
> >>> Session is also being organized at the event, there will be no
> >>> separate FOSS4G-Asia event in 2015. We hope to organize
> >>> FOSS4G-Asia in 2016.
> >>>
> >>> Best presentation awards for young researchers were already
> >>> initiated at FOSS4G-Asia 2014 [1], where Award Certificate and a
> >>> token gift were presented to the following three presentations.
> >>>
> >>> 1) Best FOSS4G Use Case Award to Kazeem Owolabi and others for
> >>> "Use case: supporting polio eradication and Ebola outbreak
> >>> response"
> >>>
> >>> 2) Best FOSS4G Developer Award to Gérald Fenoy and NIcolas Bozon
> >>> for "MapMint: The 100% service-oriented GIS platform"
> >>>
> >>> 3) Best Poster Award to Jayasinghe and others for
> >>>     "Assess the level of vulnerability to climate exaggerated
> >>> disasters in Sri Lankan Coastal Areas: An Application of Open
> >>> Source Geographic Information System"
> >>>
> >>> While I am not sure about the sustainability of instituting cash
> >>> awards, award of certificates is definitely valuable for young
> >>> researchers.
> >>>
> >>> Venka
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://www.foss4g-asia.org/
> >>
> >
> 
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