[awards-program] Proposed OpenSolaris Community Awards Program Rules

[elijah wright]

On Jan 2, 2008 3:28 PM, Teresa Giacomini <Teresa.Giacomini at sun.com> wrote:

> Jlavie, LGoldstein,
>
> Finally, we hopeto use some of the funds allocated to us ($75K of the
> $175K) to conduct a research grant program for undergraduate university
> students with a faculty sponsor.  Beth Magnusson suggested that you may
> have some boilerplate language for that type of a program...rather than
> trying to fit the grant program into this set of rules.  I have also
> attached a brief summary of the grant program.  If you believe it will
> be too difficult to manage two different programs, we also had the idea
> of including language similar to this and running one program (although
> the grant program is preferred):<http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program>



Perhaps this could be modeled after the NSF's REU program for
undergraduates; that system seems to work fairly well, is competitive, and
is largely parallel to what's been mentioned so far.

Here's an exemplar document, from a couple of years ago:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05592/nsf05592.htm

It seems to me that the sort of content found under "Project Description" is
all very necessary; after all, folks are proposing to *get money* for doing
some serious work... the process should reflect that committment.

[It is not the intent of such applications to be 'stodgy' or whatever, but
simply to cause people to think carefully and commit to the work that they
are actually going to be doing.]

Happy to explore this set of ideas further; I figured I would at least
surface the idea of something modeled after REU and see who 'bites' on it.
:-)

--elijah
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