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

Sun Apr 5 10:50:54 PDT 2015

Hi Suchith,

sure, I will be the contact point for this initiative. Of course I welcome key people to join me at the meeting for further support.

Best regards,
Anne

On April 4, 2015 7:01:48 PM CEST, 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.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Suchith
>
>
>
>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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