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

2021-11-27 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi all, Some comments inline: On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 1:37 PM Huidae Cho wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 5:40 AM Moritz Lennert < > mlenn...@club.worldonline.be> wrote: > >> Thanks, Vero, for your feedback (and Vaclav for the direct change) ! >> > I took liberty to add some links (what "PSC"

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

2021-11-17 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 11:53 AM Moritz Lennert < mlenn...@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

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

2021-11-16 Thread Moritz Lennert
Hi everyone, There is a general tendency (very strong with the international organisations and governments) 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. If we go in that direction, then it should definitely

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

2021-11-16 Thread Huidae Cho
Helena, Agreed. That is what I was thinking about in the other email. The only problem I can see is will there be enough contributions when they are not guaranteed to be rewarded *after* all their work? Work done first, compete for a prize later vs. Compete for a grant and work done later. Still,

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

2021-11-16 Thread Helena Mitasova
Dear all - I don’t have time right now to write more but as I was reading the document and thinking about all the pitfalls of paying for work I was wondering whether we should follow an example from geoforall and do it as award / prize for the work done - e.g. Annual award for the best student

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

2021-11-16 Thread Huidae Cho
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 5:40 AM Moritz Lennert wrote: > Thanks, Vero, for your feedback (and Vaclav for the direct change) ! > > Here are some comments/replies. > > Am 15.11.2021 21:35 schrieb Veronica Andreo: > > This is great Moritz! Thanks for taking the lead on this and drafting > > the

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

2021-11-16 Thread Moritz Lennert
Thanks, Vero, for your feedback (and Vaclav for the direct change) ! Here are some comments/replies. Am 15.11.2021 21:35 schrieb Veronica Andreo: This is great Moritz! Thanks for taking the lead on this and drafting the call! Here are my comments/questions: - _"be eligible to work in the

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

2021-11-15 Thread Veronica Andreo
This is great Moritz! Thanks for taking the lead on this and drafting the call! Here are my comments/questions: - *"be eligible to work in the country in which they reside" --> *maybe this is related to them having a tax number or bank account, no idea. Questions might be if the money goes

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

2021-11-15 Thread Moritz Lennert
Dear all, Following the discussions at today's PSC I've written a first draft of a call for student grants: https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Student_Grants. Several points still need clarification (see comments in [brackets]). Feel free to edit as you see necessary. If we really want to