[GRASS-PSC] First draft of call for student grants

[Vaclav Petras]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 11:53 AM Moritz Lennert <
mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:

> ...to move toward the competition model, but
> I'm not a big fan of it as it generally means many people doing a lot of
> work for free.
>

That may not be exactly our case since - according to the current draft on
the wiki page - the program involves mentorship, so you do get the benefit
of being mentored. The technical writing GSoC spinoff (which I'm not sure
if it is going on) was supposed to be "like GSoC," but without pay.

>From our project work amount, the mentorship-and-possible-award program
will require more commitment to the mentorship than just the work/grant
program where the mentorship might be optional. Perhaps it could be two
independent programs, but the idea here is you have to get mentored in
order to be eligible, so we reward not only the result, but also the
professional development.

However, I'm open to a simple awards program without mentorship as well.
People now work on the project for many different reasons and when done,
students could newly apply for an award. Just work on GSoC (and potentially
any future OSGeo or GRASS paid work) would be excluded from being eligible
(no double-dipping to the OSGeo pool).

Vaclav
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