[OSGeo-Discuss] [Fwd: Re: [NOSI discussion] money for OSS]

[Steve Lime]

Many, many MapServer apps have a natural resource focus. MapServer also
has it's roots in higher ed... That's only one OSGeo project but there are ties to
some of the others (e.g. GRASS data production => GDAL backend => MapServer 
=> MapBender).

Steve

>>> gary.lang at autodesk.com 06/06/06 8:47 PM >>>
Interesting. Qualifications:

   1.  Provides a direct and demonstrably significant benefit to one or
more of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's traditional constituencies:
higher education, with a special emphasis on the arts and humanities;
libraries and scholarly communications; performing arts; conservation
and the environment; or museums and art conservation;  

Anyone have any examples here?

   2. Meets the Foundation's strict standards for excellence; and

Should be easy :-)

   3. Includes the development of intellectual property that is freely
available to the academic community under one of the approved open
source licenses.

Done.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tjm at timberline.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 5:01 PM
To: discuss at mail.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Fwd: Re: [NOSI discussion] money for OSS]

Anyone already familiar with the group mentioned below?
"Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced a Call for Nominations for
the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration"

Something to aim for?

Tyler

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [NOSI discussion] money for OSS
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 08:05:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Reuben Silvers <reubensilvers at yahoo.com>
To: nosi-discussion at nosi.net

Its great to see the foundation world start to encourage FLOSS
explicitly, and back it up with real $.

This grant is somewhat limited to software that benefits Mellon's
traditional constituencies:
... "higher education, with a special emphasis on the arts and
humanities; libraries and scholarly communications; performing arts;
conservation and the environment; or museums and art conservation."

Hopefully this is a success for them and other foundations copy the
idea.



--- Adam Bernstein <adam at amberbug.org> wrote:

> Dunno if everyone else already knows about this, but it looks great
> -- 
> $25-$100K awards!
> 
>       ab
> 
> 
>   14) Mellon Foundation Announces Awards for Open Source Software
> 
>   Deadline: August 15, 2006
> 
>   The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced a Call for
>   Nominations for the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology
>   Collaboration. These awards, to be bestowed for the first time
>   at an international technology conference in the fall of 2006,
>   will recognize notprofit organizations that have demonstrated
>   exceptional leadership in the collaborative development of open-
>   source software through the contribution of substantial, self-
>   funded organizational resources to the open-source project for
>   which they are nominated.
> 
>   MATC awards will be made at two levels -- $25,000 and $100,000
>   -- for significant contributions to collaborative, open-source
>   software development that serves one of the foundation's
>   traditional constituencies. The level of the award will depend
>   on the scale and significance of the nominated project.
> 
>   Any U.S. or foreign organization that meets the foundation's
>   legal criteria for receiving grants and its strict standards for
>   excellence is eligible for consideration. The board of trustees
>   of the Mellon Foundation has authorized multiple awards at each
>   level.
> 
>   Visit the Mellon Foundation Web site for the complete Call for
>   Nominations.
> 
>   RFP Link: http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10002728/mellon
> 
>   For additional RFPs in Science/Technology, visit:
>   http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10002729/science
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